ChairmanLMAO wrote:Sylvan wrote:
What do you guys do instead? Only (qualitative) analysis? I only had one seminar in linguistics but I know that some of my study mates write their thesis in linguistics and include a survey in their methodology.
Strengthen it or provide evidence suggesting that the hypothesis or theory is probable, but it's unlikely you'll be able to
prove it. Because suddenly you find like 5 speakers who don't do it, or opposes from your claim, and then it's like ah shit time to rethink
My main area of study is cognitive psychology atm and it's interesting to see other discipline's approaches for generating knowledge.