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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Global English: World Englishes
World Englishes refers to the multiple varieties of English used globally, including those in countries where English is
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Global English: World Englishes
Global English refers to English used as an international or lingua franca language, enabling communication among speake
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Global English: World Englishes
A lingua franca is a language used for communication between speakers of different native languages, serving as a common
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Language and Power: Instrumental Power
Instrumental power refers to language used to exercise direct control over others' behavior or to achieve material goals
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Language and Power: Instrumental Power
Influential power refers to language used to persuade, convince, or shape others' thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes throu
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Language and Power: Instrumental Power
Political discourse encompasses the language, rhetorical strategies, and communicative practices through which political
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Language and Technology: Netspeak
Netspeak refers to the distinctive linguistic features of online communication, including abbreviations (LOL, BRB), emot
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Language and Technology: Netspeak
Hashtags are metadata tags created by prefixing words or phrases with the # symbol, used on social media platforms to ma
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Language and Technology: Netspeak
Emoticons are text-based representations of facial expressions created with keyboard characters (punctuation, letters, n
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Research Methods: Elicitation Technique
Elicitation techniques are research methods in which the investigator prompts language production by asking questions, s
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Research Methods: Elicitation Technique
Corpus analysis is a quantitative research approach that examines large bodies of language data (corpora) using computat
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Research Methods: Elicitation Technique
The comparative method is a historical linguistic approach that compares related languages or varieties to identify regu
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Research Methods: Elicitation Technique
Apparent-time studies track language change by comparing language use across age groups in a single time period, assumin
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Paper 3, Investigating Language, Research Methods: Elicitation Technique
Real-time studies follow speakers or language communities over many years or decades, directly observing language change
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Paper 3, Language Investigation: Language Investigation Methodology
Language investigation methodology encompasses the systematic approaches and procedures for researching language phenome
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Paper 3, Language Investigation: Language Investigation Methodology
A research question articulates the specific aspect of language a researcher aims to investigate. Effective research que
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Paper 3, Language Investigation: Language Investigation Methodology
Data collection methods are the specific approaches used to gather language samples for investigation. Different methods
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Paper 3, Language Investigation: Language Investigation Methodology
Transcription converts audio/video recordings into written representation. Detailed transcription conventions represent
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Paper 3, Language Investigation: Language Investigation Methodology
Sampling is the selection of language data or participants for investigation. Sampling decisions affect whether findings
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Paper 3, Language Investigation: Language Investigation Methodology
Validity concerns whether research actually investigates what it claims to investigate; reliability concerns whether pro
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Paper 3, Language Investigation: Language Investigation Methodology
Ethical research practice requires informed consent, privacy protection, appropriate data use, and minimization of harm.
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