Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Lia Litosseliti -- Part I. Issues. Research questions in linguistics / Jane Sunderland -- Quantitative, qualitative or both? Combining methods in linguistic research / Jo Angouri -- Part II. Quantitative and corpus research methods. Quantitative methods: concepts, frameworks and issues / Sebastian M. Rasinger -- Organizing and processing your data: the nuts and bolts of quantitative analyses / Erez Levon -- Corpus methods in linguistics / Paul Baker -- Part III. Qualitative research methods. Discourse-analytic approaches to text and talk / Judith Baxter -- Linguistic ethnography / Angela Creese -- Contemplating interviews and focus groups / Nigel Edley and Lia Litosseliti -- Multimodal analysis: key issues / Jeff Bezemer and Carey Jewitt -- Narrative analysis in linguistic research / Julio C. Gimenez.