Now you have a fairly clear idea what you are writing about and have collected your data, it is time to think about a systematic way of analysing it.
Analysis structure
Your analysis will form the main part of your investigation and you need to think carefully about how you will structure it. This will help you to approach your analysis in an organised and systematic way.You could organise it:
- by text - exploring, analysing and discussing your hypotheses on an individual text basis. Your conclusion will bring them all together.
- by theme.
- by method - exploring, analysing and discussing all your texts a framework at a time or a specific aspect of a framework at a time.
- by the chronology of the texts - usually you would start with the earliest text.
Analysis techniques
Ideally you will have a mixture of quantitative and qualitative analysis.
You need to be able to count and / or tabulate your analysis. This really helps with the qualitative analysis. For example:
- the number of monosyllabic words compared to polysyllabic words
- the frequency of non-standard forms
- the frequency of different sentence types /lengths
- frequency of male / female interruptions
- average length of pauses
- frequency of tag questions / fillers / weak adjectives etc
You need to be able to tabulate the data you are interested in eg listing all the noun phrases used / the phrasal verbs used / idioms used / premodification etc
This lesson you need to start your analysis: decide on the approaches you are going to take and start picking your texts apart! See me for any further info or refer to your AS /A2 textbook!
Nina
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