Learning How to Ask A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research

Name: Learning How to Ask A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research
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ISBN: 9780521311137

ISBN-10: 0521311136

ISBN-13: 9780521311137

Edition: 1986

Authors: Charles L. Briggs, Judith Irvine, Bambi Schieffelin, Marjorie H. Goodwin, Joel Kuipers

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Interviews are ubiquitous in modern society, and they play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs convincingly argues in this book, received interviewing techniques rest on fundamental misapprehensions about the nature both of the interview as a communicative event, and of the nature of the data that it produces. Furthermore, interviewers rarely examine the compatibility of interviews as a means of acquiring information to one another. These oversights often blind interviewers to ensuing errors of interpretation, as well as to the limitations of the interview as a means of acquiring data. To conflict these problems, Professor Briggs presents an analysis of the…

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List price: $51.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/25/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.83" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Foreword



Preface



Introduction



The setting: Mexicano society and C=rdova, New Mexico



Interview techniques vis-a-vis native metacommunicative repertoires; or, on the analysis of communicative blunders



The acquisition of metacommunicative competence



Listen before you leap: toward methodological sophistication



Conclusion: theoretical quagmires and 'purely methodological' issues


Notes


References


Index