Mixed Methods - Interviews, Surveys, and Cross-Cultural Comparisons

Informationen zum Autor Robert Schrauf is Professor and Head of the Department of Applied Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. He co-edited Language Development over the Lifespan (2009; with Kees de Bot, University of Groningen) and Dialogue and Dementia: Cognitive and Communicative Resources for Engagement (2014; with Nicole Müller, University of Linköping). Klappentext A hands-on guide to making cross-cultural comparisons by integrating data from qualitative interviews and quantitative surveys collected in multiple languages. Zusammenfassung This book is intended for social scientists and graduate students in social science disciplines who conduct mixed methods! cross-cultural research. The book develops! explains! and illustrates both theory and methods to analyse and integrate qualitative and quantitative data collected from multiple groups in multiple languages and to make principled cross-cultural comparisons. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Mixed methods cross-cultural research and discourse; 2. Four empirical mixed methods cross-cultural comparisons; 3. Language and the interactional emergence of cultural meanings; 4. From interactional events to transcripts and spreadsheets; 5. Language(s), translation(s), and bilingual(s); 6. Worked example: cultivating cultural and linguistic insight in the Alzheimer's beliefs study; 7. Cross-cultural survey response and the sociocultural field; 8. Worked example: the cross-cultural survey in the Alzheimer's beliefs study; 9. Cross-cultural interviews: 'doing' culture in discursive interaction; 10. Worked example: interactional interviews in the Alzheimer's beliefs study; 11. Mixed methods cross-cultural comparison: a discourse-centered framework; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Schrauf, Robert W. Schrauf, Robert W. (Pennsylvania State University) Schrauf, Schrauf Robert W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2016
• EAN: 9781107147126
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14712-6
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, REFERENCE / Research, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social research & statistics, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social research and statistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Research methods: general