Hi all,
So just want to check we're all on the right track...
Erm, we've changed our original question to something more specific and less broad. I believe, from reading Alison's suggestions, that our research topic will focus on one soap and the use of good and synonyms. We will then ask a group of people aged between 18-22 say, and ask them if they have a preference to what word they would use (if any). We could also possibly use the "missing word" scenario? So we would describe a situation, context etc of a clip of the soap and then ask them what they think the missing word is? Is that right? Or any other suggestions?
I've looked at your revised GLA and it seems you have a workable design for your project now. You'll need to be careful about how you calculate your results. E.g. if a speaker feels very positive about something and uses 5 positive evaluators in one interview (3 x 'good', say + 2 x 'great'), whereas another speaker uses only 1, what conclusions do you draw about overall frequency?
ReplyDeleteAlso, I don't think your method allows you to identify reasons for any discrepancies between your authentic data and the scripted examples. You can speculate about the reasons, but you can't know for sure what they are. This isn't a problem: simply finding out about any patterns in the different kinds of data you collect is fine.