1st Edition
ELF Research Methods and Approaches to Data and Analyses Theoretical and Methodological Underpinnings
This book systematically explores and discusses English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) research methods frequently deployed by ELF researchers in analysing their data.
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.
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.
1. ELF Research Methods and Different Approaches to Data and Analyses: Introduction
Kumiko Murata
Part 1: ELF Research: Some Theoretical Underpinnings and Development
2. Research Perspectives on ELF: Linguistic Usage and Communicative Use
Henry Widdowson
3. Researching ELF Communication: Focus on High-stake Encounters
Barbara Seidlhofer
4. ELF and Translanguaging: Covert and Overt Resources in a Transnational Workplace
Alessia Cogo
Part 2: Spoken and Written Corpora in ELF Research
5. Good Texts in Nonstandard English: ELF and Academic Writing
Anna Mauranen
6. Exploring Diachronic Changes in Research Articles from an ELF Perspective: A Small Corpus Study
Sayoko Maswana
7. Tracing the Emergence of Multilingual Practices in a BELF Meeting: Micro-diachronic Analysis and Implications of Corpus Design
Marie-Luise Pitzl
8. Asian Corpus of English (ACE): Features and Applications
Lixun Wang
9. Interpersonal Formulaic Sequences in ELF Academic Lectures: Methodological Challenges
Ying Wang
Part 3: Conversation Analytic Approaches to ELF Interactions
10. Applying Conversation Analysis to ELF Interaction Data
Jagdish Kaur
11. Analysing Multilingual/Lingua Franca Interactions using Conversation Analysis: Notes on Transcription and Representability
Kaisa Pietikäinen
12. Accounting for Asymmetries in ELF Interactions: Three Disparate Asian Settings
Alan Thompson
Part 4: Narrative Approaches in ELF Research: Exploring Attitudes Towards ELF
13. ‘Place-reflexivity’ as an Imaginary Kaleidoscope to Explore Methodological Issues in Elf Research
Masuko Miyahara
14. Understanding the ELF Phenomenon through Narrative Inquiry: A Diary Study on Identities of Japanese ELF Users
Yoko Nogami
15. Rigour in ELF Language Attitude Research: An Example of Conversational Interview Study
Tomokazu Ishikawa
Biography
Kumiko Murata is a retired professor, formerly with the School of Education and Graduate School of Education in the Faculty of Education and Integrated Arts and Sciences, Waseda University, Japan.