More help in my MA thesis

[Demi]

Hello my new friends,

 I am looking for more information regarding my MA thesis. I am looking for articles and some related topics that could help me writing my thesis. I didn't decide yet which topic I will choose.  I need more help to decide which topic is easy to write on especially Engish is not my first language. The first topic is how do youngsters use slang words and language to separate themselves from most older eras? I will choose people from my country to collect the data. The second topic is  how does language use vary between monolingual and multi-lingual in my city? I have to choose people who speak two or more than two languages and others who use their first language. I need from you to guide me how to start and which topic will be the best to start with,

 

Thank you.  

 

 

[knp]

Oh, gosh, sweetheart...those questions are far too broad to get any useful help here. Can you not ask your professors, or look back at articles you read in old courses you took?

[Demi]

First of all, thank you for the advice. Secondly, I will ask my professors when I back to the US , right now I am trying to focus on one of the two subjects to start my search on it. 

 

 

Thanx..

[historicallinguist]

Just some rough suggestions. It sounds like you are doing sociolinguistics. First of all, you need to have some good ideas about some sociolinguistic theories and models, and then choose one to apply to your data, if applicable. Second, you need to better define your data set. Based on your description, it is way too vague and it is hard to tell what exactly is your object (or patient) of research. Besides that, you will need to also focus on one or two linguistic phenomena of the specific set of data you want to deal with. For example, you cannot simply say that you want to compare the language(s) of youngsters and elders. A better (but maybe not the best) hypothetical question may be asking how the usage of quantifier raising (or many other phenomena such as island constraints, you name it)  differs between youngsters and elders in English speakers of city X.