“…They include: (a) discourse completion tasks and questionnaires (e.g., Barnlund and Akari, 1985;Sharifian, 2005;Tang and Zhang, 2009), (b) recall protocols (e.g., Knapp et al, 1984), (c) role play (e.g., Saito and Beecken, 1997), (d) field observation (e.g., Wolfson and Manes, 1980;Herbert and Straight, 1989, and several others) and (e) conversation and discourse analysis (Pomerantz, 1978;Wieland, 1995;Golato, 2002). Golato (2003) discussed the merits and demerits of each of these methods of data collection, noting that each of them allows the researcher to investigate different facets of the topic at hand.…”