Heini, Annina and Kredens, Krzysztof (2023). Remote data collection in sociolinguistics: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Social Research Methodology ,
Abstract
This article reports on our experience of collecting language data from informants in video-conferencing settings under a research design originally developed with face-to-face interactions in mind. We had set out to investigate whether individual stylistic features persist in different modes of textual production and designed a complex set of data-collection procedures, which we then adopted for use in a fully virtual environment with 112 informants, who were asked to provide language samples in eight discourse types. We conclude that the unintended shift to virtual settings had only a minimal impact on the volume and quality of the data. While the process was occasionally afflicted by IT-related technical issues and made extra demands on the data collector, it also created opportunities, notably around the management of interactional power asymmetries. Additional benefits included instant troubleshooting during data handover sessions and the ability to recruit participants who would not have been able to travel to face-to-face sessions.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2023.2265257 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Institute for Forensic Linguistics College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities College of Business and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences & Humanities > English Languages and Applied Linguistics ?? 53981500Jl ?? |
Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | COVID-19,Remote data collection,forensic linguistics,sociolinguistics,General Social Sciences |
Publication ISSN: | 1464-5300 |
Last Modified: | 06 Aug 2024 09:21 |
Date Deposited: | 10 Oct 2023 07:11 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2023-10-05 |
Published Online Date: | 2023-10-05 |
Accepted Date: | 2023-09-27 |
Submitted Date: | 2022 |
Authors: |
Heini, Annina
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