摘要：The scope of research methods available to linguists is prodigious. As Sharma and Podesva (2013) explain at the outset of their new research guide, linguistics "represents a single discipline to the extent that it broadly shares a single object of analysis, but little else can be said to be uniform in terms of epistemology and method" (p. 1). Indeed, the field's heterogeneity is complex, split not just by theoretical, descriptive, and applied approaches, but also by divergent research interests related to form, meaning, and context. To compile a volume on linguistic methods seems an understatedly difficult task and most likely the reason why this book, meant for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, is one of the first of its kind.
