Quantifying language : a researcher's and teacher's guide to gathering language data and reducing it to figures / Phil Scholfield. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholfield, Phil, 1945-

Series:

Multilingual matters (Series)

Multilingual matters

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Formalization (Linguistics).

Mathematical linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 298 p. )

Place of Publication:

Clevedon, Avon, [England] ; Philadelphia : Multilingual Matters, c1995.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

pt. I. Setting the Scene: What is Quantified and Why? 1. Basic Terms. What do People Quantify? 2. Why do People Quantify Language? The Teaching/Therapy Reason. 3. Why do People Quantify Language? The Research Reason

pt. II. Data Gathering for Quantification: Kinds of Instrument and Technique. 4. Overview of Four General Kinds of Approach to Data Gathering for Quantification. 5. Data for Quantification: Fully Naturalistic. 6. Data for Quantification: Quasi-naturalistic Interaction. 7. Data for Quantification: Opinion. 8. Data for Quantification: Manipulation. 9. Maximising Naturalness in the Data-gathering Phase of Language Quantification. 10. The 'Referencing' Dimension of Quantification

pt. III. Data Analysis in Quantification: Scoring, Counting and Scale Types. 11. Overview of Scale Types: Simple Sources of Interval Scales. 12. Scoring on Interval Scales: Counts of Various Sorts. 13. Scoring on Interval Scales: Totals from Uniform Sets of Dichotomous Items.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-17178-5