Malta, Doctoral Summer School 14 June, 2019
What is a bilingual individual?
Knowledge worth knowing to whom, for what purposes, in whose interest? (Ortega, 2019)
QUAN research can also adopt an ethical stand.
Train yourself in statistics that allow you to bypass fixed idea of native/non-nativeness.
Research design can be ethical and political.
Use research discourse for affirmation not for failure.
Q: How much should a discourse analyst know before he or she engages in corpus work?
A: I don’t agree with the presupposition. No discourse analyst needs to know anything doing Corpus Linguistics. What they need (for either) is an open mind, a willingness to learn, to take risks, to make mistakes, to ask for help or find it for themselves. There is not just one way of slicing bread, and the CL ways of slicing it are not necessarily superior to non-CL ways.
Mike Scott, Viana, Zyngier & Barnbrook (2011: 218)