Monday, 12 November 2012
Ethics
As the questionnaire we are sending out contains terms that some will find offensive we felt it was necessary to make it clear on our coversheet that people should not feel obliged to do the questionnaire should they not wish too. We felt that as long as we made our participants aware that this type of language was included, they would be able to choose whether or not they wish to participate. We will only be asking people who are aged 18 or above and now we have focused our topic a bit more we believe the offensive terms are very necessary to acquire useful data.
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Now that you have reached Milestone 2, please can you add an extra page or pages as suggested so that you can keep all your finding together which will be less public, and leave the landing page for quick updates?
ReplyDeleteFollowing our meeting, if you decide to analyse your data yourselves, as opposed to asking informants about degrees of offensiveness, some references that could be useful are:
ReplyDeleteAbrahams, Roger D. (1962): Playing the Dozens. Journal of American Folklore 75: 209-220
Benwell, B. (2001) Male gossip and language play in the letters pages of men's lifestyle magazines. The Journal of Popular Culture 34 (4), 19-33.
Holmberg, Anna The power of insults: A study of condescending linguistic strategies in four English online discussion forums thesis, available at http://lnu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:206096
Kochman, Thomas (ed.) (1972): Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out: Communication in Urban Black America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press
Labov, William (1972): Rules for Ritual Insults. Sudnow, David (ed.): Studies in Social Interaction. New York: The Free Press, pp. 120-169.
Labov, William (1974): “The Art of Sounding and Signifying”. In: Gage, William W. (ed.): Language in its Social Setting. Washington: The Anthropological Society of Washington, pp. 84-116.