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导读
1 Introduction:starting on the right foot
PART 1 AREAS OF STUDY AND PROJECT IDEAS
2 Psycholinguistics
3 First-language acquistiona and development
4 Conversation analysis
5 Second-language acquisision
6 Style in texts
7 Sociolinguistics
8 Accents and dialects of English
9 Structure and meaning
10 Historical linguistics
11 Language and gender
PART 2 TECHNIQUES FOR COLLECTING DATA
12 Tape-recording data
13 Experiments
14 Questionnaires
15 Interviews
16 Observation and case studies
17 Transcribing speech phonetically and phonemically
18 Transcribing speech orthographically
19 Using computers to study texts
20 The Data Protection Act
21 How to reference
22 Plagiarism and how to avoid it
23 Statistics
24 Using an abstracting Journal
25 Handy hints on writing good academic English
References
Index
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