In:English in Kuwait: Development, status and usage
Mohammad A.N. Alenezi
[Varieties of English Around the World G73] 2026
► pp. 19–48
Chapter 2Methodology
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Article outline
- 2.1Published data on the (socio)historical context of Kuwait
- 2.2Participant observations
- 2.2.1Settings
- 2.2.2Procedure
- 2.3Interviews
- 2.3.1Recruitment procedure
- 2.3.2Demographic characteristics of interviewees
- 2.3.3Interview guide
- 2.4Kuwaiti English National Corpus
- 2.4.1Sampling and data collection
- 2.4.2The structure of KENC2023
- Written component
- Spoken component
- 2.5Situated language use
- 2.6Mediated data
- 2.6.1Audiovisual subcorpus
- 2.6.2Audio subcorpus
- 2.6.3New media subcorpus
- 2.7The KENC2023 referencing scheme
- 2.7.1Written component
- 2.7.2Spoken component
- 2.8Analytical frameworks for the corpus analysis
- 2.8.1Corpus-assisted discourse studies
- Data
- Investigating ideological representations: collocation analysis
- Investigating referential discourse strategies: concordance analysis
- 2.8.2The pattern-driven analytical framework
- Data
- Methodological procedure
- 2.8.1Corpus-assisted discourse studies
- 2.9Selection of linguistic features
- 2.10Operationalisation of the parameters
- 2.10.1Operationalisation of the historical parameter
- Evidence to investigate
- Mapping of features to different developmental stages
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3
- Stage 4
- Stage 5
- 2.10.2Operationalisation of the sociolinguistic parameter
- Evidence to investigate
- Mapping of features to different developmental stages
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3
- Stage 4
- Stage 5
- 2.10.3Operationalisation of the linguistic parameter
- Evidence to investigate
- Mapping of features to different developmental stages
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3
- Stage 4
- Stage 5
- 2.10.1Operationalisation of the historical parameter
- 2.11Conclusion
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