The question of research methodology has always been of paramount importance within linguistic investigations in general, including sociolinguistic ones. In the present paper, the researcher will sketch a theoretical framework that tackles the issue of methodological strategy and procedures within the sociolinguistic research. The intent is to provide a methodological road map that pinpoints decisive guiding standpoints across different methodology-based phases. Starting from a well-designed

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... mework that launches a preoperational phase via putting the right initiating questions and evoking the real problematic in clear terms, a sociolinguistic investigator will be likely to adequately monitor his research issue and delineate its underlying scope.