Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
0.1 Why Language Matters Now
0.2 Research as Socially Constructed Knowledge
0.3 Research as Experience and as Conversation
0.4 The Research Process: Sequencing, Recursivity and Rhizome
0.5 The Authors as Your Guides and Conversational Partners
0.6 Summary
1 First Key Moment: Formulating Your Research Question
1.1 Research Questions as (Hi)Stories and Conversations
1.2 Different Ways to Get to Your Research Questions
1.3 Reflexivity, Ethics and Research Questions
1.4 Summary
2 Second Key Moment: Designing Your Research
2.1 What Is Research Design?
2.2 Research Design as Projected Work Plan
2.3 Where to Start? With Whom?
2.4 Approaches and Evidence
2.5 Data Recording and Documentation
2.6 Ethics and Politics
2.7 Research Design as Discursive Genre
2.8 Summary
3 Third Key Moment: Generating your Data
3.1 Fieldwork: Producing Data
3.2 Observing: Finding Out What People Do
3.3 Eliciting: Finding Out What People Say
3.4 Material Traces: Other Voices
3.5 Summary
4 Fourth Key Moment: Analyzing Your Data
4.1 What Is Analysis? What Does It Feel Like to Do It?
4.2 Mapping (and Categorizing)
4.3 Tracing
4.4 Connecting
4.5 Claiming
4.6 Analysis as Ethical and Political Conversation
4.7 Pulling It Together
4.8 Summary
5 Fifth Key Moment: Making Your Story
5.1 Writing the Story the Research Tells
5.2 Researchers as Knowledge Producers
5.3 Genre Expectations
5.4 Knowledge Mobilization
5.5 Summary
6 Shop Floor
6.1 Introduction: What Do We Mean by Shop Floor?
6.2 Moment 2: Designing Your Research
6.3 Moment 3: Generating Your Data
6.4 Moment 4: Analyzing Your Data
6.5 Moment 5: Making Your Story
Epilogue
References
Further Reading
Index