Pilot Study
We will conduct a small pilot study in order to check if our method is suitable. We will each ask two of our female housemates the question, ‘What did you do this morning’ and expect a one minute response. We will inform our subjects that we are doing a piece of research on language use. During their response we will tally each time one of Lakoff’s features is used. This will allow us to see which features provide the most interesting feedback and will help when narrowing down our points of interest. It may be that the question itself is not suitable. Respondents are likely to give a narrow answer, possibly not reaching one minute in length. This pilot will give us the opportunity to adjust the parts of our method that are not working. It will also give us some preliminary data off of which we can base our hypothesis.
as Alison said in the previous post, I found it quite hard to look into all of these aspects, perhaps we could narrow it down to one or two? We can discuss this tomorrow when we meet at 11am. See you tomorrow!
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