Abstract
<jats:p>The primary aim of this book is to support readers in moving from questions to credible, ethical, and publishable studies. It does so by linking epistemological choices to design decisions, and design to analysis and reporting. The scope is intentionally wide. The book begins with foundations—key concepts, processes, and philosophical orientations—then moves through planning and design, ethical protocols, methods across quantitative, qualitative, mixed, and digital traditions, core approaches to analysis, and the work of writing and publishing. The final part gathers applied cases and looks ahead to challenges and opportunities that are reshaping the field. While no single volume can be a statistics textbook or a complete survey of linguistic theory, the aim is to provide sufficient methodological literacy to choose and report appropriate analyses, and sufficient theoretical orientation to ground those choices.</jats:p>