The term  “ philosophy of research in applied linguistics” may be considered to cover a wide range of academically and philosophically important issues that have recently begun to capture the attention of scholars in research programs in their efforts, on the one hand, to reflect upon how they have traditionally approached their scientific practices and, on the other, to reconsider and redefine...

This article presents the views and assumptions of logical positivism approach and realistic approach in conducting social science research in general and business research in particular. Logical positivism has influenced research methodologies in social science, in particular “model building”. The main assumptions of logical positivism are concerned with observation and “verification principle...

On the traditional, “syntactic” conception, a scientific theory is a (preferably axiomatized) collection of statements. On the version of the opposing “semantic” conception advanced by Beatty and Giere, a theory is a definition plus a hypothesis that the definition has application. On the version advanced by Giere and van Fraasen, a theory is a non-linguistic model specified by a definition plu...

Being new to grounded theory the onus to understand the methodology and the various versionscan be daunting.Learning and understanding the differences between grounded theories methodologies can be as much a learning of one's own research philosophy and this philosophy is often the deciding factor in methodology selection. Learning the different methodologies is a difficult journey as terminolo...