ELF Research Methods and Approaches to Data and Analyses

<p>This book systematically explores and discusses English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research methods frequently deployed by ELF researchers in analysing their data. </p><p>It mainly covers three different approaches: corpus-based, both written and spoken, conversation analytic and narrative approaches. In addition to exploring these different approaches to ELF data, the volume also introduces case studies that utilise them in analysing data in both academic and workplace settings, which facilitates not only the understanding of the ways in which research is conducted but also its findings. Furthermore, the book discusses theoretical underpinnings of ELF research and its recent development in its first part. It is comprehensive both in understanding theory and exploring research methods which can be deployed in conducting ELF research.</p><p>The book, therefore, will be of great interest and use for both ELF researchers and educators as well as undergraduate and postgraduate students who are about to embark on their ELF and ELF-related research, and also to those who are new to the field.</p> <p>1. ELF Research Methods and Different Approaches to Data and Analyses: Introduction <b>Part 1: ELF Research: Some Theoretical Underpinnings and Development </b>2. Research Perspectives on ELF: Linguistic Usage and Communicative Use 3. Researching ELF Communication: Focus on High-stake Encounters 4. ELF and Translanguaging: Covert and Overt Resources in a Transnational Workplace <b>Part 2: Spoken and Written Corpora in ELF Research </b>5. Good Texts in Nonstandard English: ELF and Academic Writing 6. Exploring Diachronic Changes in Research Articles from an ELF Perspective: A Small Corpus Study 7. Tracing the Emergence of Multilingual Practices in a BELF Meeting: Micro-diachronic Analysis and Implications of Corpus Design 8. Asian Corpus of English (ACE): Features and Applications 9. Interpersonal Formulaic Sequences in ELF Academic Lectures: Methodological Challenges <b>Part 3: Conversation Analytic Approaches to ELF Interactions </b>10. Applying Conversation Analysis to ELF Interaction Data 11. Analysing Multilingual/Lingua Franca Interactions using Conversation Analysis: Notes on Transcription and Representability 12. Accounting for Asymmetries in ELF Interactions: Three Disparate Asian Settings <b>Part 4: Narrative Approaches in ELF Research: Exploring Attitudes Towards ELF </b>13. ‘Place-reflexivity’ as an Imaginary Kaleidoscope to Explore Methodological Issues in Elf Research 14. Understanding the ELF Phenomenon through Narrative Inquiry: A Diary Study on Identities of Japanese ELF Users 15. Rigour in ELF Language Attitude Research: An Example of Conversational Interview Study</p>