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

This appraisal reveals that interviewing techniques depend upon fundamental misapprehensions about the nature of the interview as a communicative event as well as the nature of the data that it produces.

• Author
• Charles L. Briggs

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 176

• Series
• Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language

• Publisher
• Cambridge University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780521311137

• Genres
• anthropology, ethnography

• Release date
• 1986