Wonderfulls,
I have seen some very thoughtful methodologies but you can always do a little more creative thinking - simplicity is the enemy of good marks. Really try and imagine what you will get, get some sample data if that helps (see the coursework booklet and work through the tasks), try and forsee where there will be problems and address them and really try and get more reliablity and comparability factors to show you have made your investigation as valid as possible in really thoughtful ways.
Once you have collected your data, keep a clean copy for the coursework folder but the next stage is to annotate a copy of the data, finding as many features that relate to your hypothesis as possible, quantifying what seems relevant to point you in the direction of patterns of language use or anything that challenges your hypothesis (which will be worth looking at in detail) and applying as much terminology as possible to explore interesting uses of language. Then relate that language to as many theories from your theory area as possible (not just your hypothesis), showing where they are supported and contradicted; other theory areas might be applicable too e.g. power theories. Also annotate tentative explanations of why language may be being used in this way (context) - offer alternative interpretations where possible. Often questions are good at this stage e.g. why does she shift the agenda?
When I see you on Friday, I will expect to see your data or an iron clad reason why you don't have it, and we will be able to start exploring your data if you have it or writing your introduction if you don't have it.
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