Complete 3 page APA formatted essay: **Please read the following two papers and compare and contrast the methodologies. What are the main research questions What are the strengths and weaknesses What

Complete 3 page APA formatted essay: **Please read the following two papers and compare and contrast the methodologies. What are the main research questions What are the strengths and weaknesses What tool(s) do the researchers use Is the case the make convincing Are there any similaritie.

o out you have a laugh and you can pull yeah okay but like…” (Jaworski and Coupland J., 2005) has as its main research question an exploration of the way participation in gossip uses the emergent category of “othering” in the context of students interacting with their peers or family in casual situations.

Both studies make use of “live” spoken language which is recorded on audio tape. The De Fina study makes use of five audio and one video tape and some interviews as well, and the researcher is very much an outsider, being a female and not part of the card playing group that is being examined. The Jaworski/Coupland study makes use of tapes collected by undergraduate students of linguistics, and the students are involved both in the data production and in the data collection. This dual role is a weakness in the latter study, since there is a chance that the students could consciously or unconsciously influence the actual data itself. However, this weakness is compensated by the large number of different speakers (a set of 60 tapes each containing usually two or three speakers).

The two articles adopt the same structure which consists of title, abstract containing the main research question, introduction, brief review of relevant literature, and then a few examples from the author’s linguistic data which are presented, analysed and discussed, and finally a conclusion which repeats the original research aims. Notes, bibliography and transcription conventions are also provided, and these appear to reflects the house style of the scholarly journal in which both articles appear.

The examples illustrated by de Fina are brief snippets of conversation between card players. They clearly illustrate the point being made, namely “that language choice and code-switching are not situationally motivated, but discourse motivated” and they demonstrate the actual construction of the group identity. Careful explanation of the complexity and diversity of