Unit 6. Special methods of linguistic research

Commutation method.

The method of minimum pairs.

The method of oppositional analysis.

The method of distributive analysis.

The method of valency analysis.

Etymological method.

The method of free association.

The translation method.

The interpretation method.

Component Analysis Method.

Taxonomy.

1. Case study. Types and features. Opportunities and limitations. 
2. Conceptual analysis. Opportunities and limitations. 
3. Content analysis. Opportunities and limitations. 
4. Conversation analysis. Opportunities and limitations.
5. Coordinated management of meaning (CMM). Opportunities and limitations. 
6. Cultural values and meaning analysis.
7. Discourse analysis. Opportunities and limitations. 
8. Ethnographic method. Typology of approaches. 
9. Experiment. Types and features. 
10. Intent analysis. Opportunities and limitations. 
11. Intercultural communication concepts. 
12. Interviewing. Opportunities and limitations. 
13. Narrative analysis. Opportunities and limitations.
14. Observation method. Types and features. Opportunities and limitations. 
15. Qualitative and quantitative methods of linguistic analysis.
16. Syntactic text structures linguistic analysis methods. Rhetorical analysis. Opportunities and limitations. 
17. Semiotic analysis. 
18. Text Linguistics. Cohesion and coherence. Emotionality versus Emotivity. Text Tonality.  
19. Linguistic Semantics. Semantic Component Analysis. Denotation, Reference and Connotation analysis.
20. Communication event. Text and Communicator. Linguistic personality conception.

Term paper methodological issues.

1. What linguistic material did you collect and process in your study? 
2. What linguistic methods did you apply in your term paper and why?
3. What linguistic models were involved in your study?
4. What linguistic concepts were in involved in your study?
5. Did you use any special linguistic analysis techniques in your study?

1. Какой лингвистический материал вы собрали и обработали в ходе вашего исследования?
2. Какие лингвистические методы вы применили в своей курсовой работе? Что определило (или чем обоснован) ваш выбор?
3. Какие лингвистические модели были задействованы в вашем исследовании?
4. Какие лингвистические концепции и понятия были актуальны для вашего исследования?

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Analytical Essay Structure

(2,000 words)

i. The concept of the method of scientific research

and standard criteria for its evaluation.

ii. Analytical description of method 1.

(Citing is welcome. Quoting must be followed by analysis.)

iii. Analytical description of method 2.

(Citing is welcome. Quoting must be followed by analysis.)

iv. The common features

v. Differences.

vi. Advantages and disadvantages of the two compared methods.

vii. Comparison table

viii. Compatibility analysis.

ix. Conclusion

x. References

1. Case study. Types and features. Opportunities and limitations. 
2. Conceptual analysis. Opportunities and limitations. 
3. Content analysis. Opportunities and limitations. 
4. Conversation analysis. Opportunities and limitations.
5. Discourse analysis. Opportunities and limitations. 
6. Ethnographic method. Typology of approaches. 
7. Experiment. Types and features. 
8. Intent analysis. Opportunities and limitations. 
9. Interviewing. Opportunities and limitations. 
10. Narrative analysis. Opportunities and limitations.
11. Observation method. Types and features. Opportunities and limitations. 
12. Semiotic analysis.
13. Componential analysis

2 June 2020, 7pm

- operational meeting of group monitors (a must).

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5 June 2020, (7pm) 

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9 June 2020, (7pm) 

- operational meeting of group monitors (a must).

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12 June 2020, (7pm) 

- operational meeting of group monitors (a must).