Learning How to Ask - A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research - Paperback - 1986

Interviews play a crucial role in social scientific research. But, as Charles Briggs argues in this work, 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.
Year of publication: 1986
Pagination: 176 pages, 1 b/w illus. 1 map
Format: Paperback
Serie: Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
Serie editor: Judith T. Irvine, Bambi B. Schieffelin, Marjorie Harness Goodwin, Joel C. Kuipers, Don Kulick, John Lucy, Elinor Ochs, Michael Silverstein