Chapter 4
Methodology and participants
Article outline
- 4.1Research questions
- 4.2Written and spoken language research
- 4.3The data collection process and the SPOKE corpus
- 4.3.1The cuppa coffee approach
- 4.3.2Corpus overview and description
- 4.3.3The participants
- Profession
- English proficiency and experiences abroad
- 4.4Other corpora consulted and analytical tools used
- The Santa Barbara Corpus of American English
- The British National Corpus
- The Corpus of Contemporary American English
- Analytical tools
- Analytical procedure
- 4.5Selection of morpho-syntactic patterns for investigation
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