Research Design and Methodology

This chapter is purposefully placed between the theoretical and empirical sections of the monograph in an effort to inform readers about the essential methodological choices that constitute the foundation of this study. The purpose of this chapter is to outline the methodological approach, the research design, and the procedures used in the study, covering key information regarding the numerous pertinent features characterising this study, from a methodology perspective. In order to fulfil this objective, this chapter is organised into multiple sections. First, the research questions are revisited, followed by the description of the study design used to guide the study (Sect. 4.2). Subsequently, the chapter describes the investigation’s context and participants (Sect. 4.3). The data-collection instruments and the data-gathering process are described next (Sect. 4.4). In the succeeding section, a description of the corpus is provided (Sect. 4.5). Finally, the procedures used to analyse the data are explained in depth (Sect. 4.6). The chapter closes with a summary (Sect. 4.7). This chapter’s overall goal is to lay the groundwork for the inclusion of different approaches in the empirical part of this monograph.