The Map: A Beginner's Guide to Doing Research in Translation Studies by Jenny Williams & Andrew Chesterman

Author:Jenny Williams & Andrew Chesterman [Williams, Jenny & Chesterman, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Language Arts & Disciplines, General
ISBN: 9781900650540
Google: dFBiAAAAMAAJ
Publisher: St. Jerome Pub.
Published: 2002-11-15T00:00:48.640523+00:00

5.3 Four Kinds of Hypotheses

Much empirical research either starts or ends with a hypothesis (a claim) of some kind. You might start off with a hypothesis to test, or end up by proposing a new one. As mentioned above, hypotheses may arise simply from intuition, even in a dream. Usually, you slowly generate your own hypothesis during a process of thought and data analysis, after a period of trial and error. Or you can make use of a hypothesis that has already been proposed by someone else, and try it out on your material or test it via logical argument. To some extent, you are always making use of existing hypotheses, since it is not worth starting from complete zero for each new project. Why reinvent the wheel?

Hypotheses are important because they suggest ways of generalizing beyond the particular, ways of understanding better, ways of relating a particular research project to other work in the same area. Four basic kinds of hypothesis are commonly distinguished.

1. Interpretive hypothesis: that something can be usefully defined as, or seen as, or interpreted as, something else; i.e. that a given concept is useful for describing or understanding something.

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