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008			860929 1986 enkb b eng d
010			_a85-29153
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035			_a(OCoLC)17005246
040			_aOOU _bEng _cJCRC
082	0		_a300/.723
099			_aH 62 .B65 1986
100	1		_aBriggs, Charles L., _d1953-
245	1	0	_aLearning How to Ask : _ba Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research / _cCharles L. Briggs.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c1986.
300			_axv, 155 p. : _b1 map ; _c24 cm.
440		0	_aStudies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 132-148) and index.
505			_a"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 confront these problems, Professor Briggs presents an analysis of the 'communicative blunders' that he himself committed in conducting research interviews among Spanish-speakers in northern New Mexico. By focusing on these errors and exploring how they may be avoided, he is able to propose new techniques for designing, implementing, and analyzing interview-based research. These rest on identifying the subjects' resources for conveying information, and the relative compatibility of the shared rules and understandings that underlie their strategies with those associated with interviews. Critical of existing paradigms of interviewing, which he sees as deriving from Western 'folk' theories of reality and communication, Briggs shows that the development of more sophisticated interviewing methodologies requires further research into interviewing itself. Briggs's conclusions provide a basis for the reexamination of current uses of interviews in a wide range of contexts - from social science research to job applications, welfare and health care delivery, criminal and legal investigations, journalism and broadcasting, and other areas of everyday life. His book will appeal to linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, psychologists, as well as other readers whose research or professional activities depend on the use of interviews." (Book Cover)
505			_aCONTENTS
505			_aForeward by Aaron V. Cicourel
505			_aPreface
505			_a1. Introduction
505			_a2. The setting: Mexicano society and Córdova, New Mexico
505			_a3. Interview techniques vis-à-vis native metacommunicative repertoires; or, on the analysis of communicative blunders
505			_a4. The acquisition of metacommunicative competence
505			_a5. Listen before you leap: toward methodological sophistication
505			_a6. Conclusion: theoretical quagmires and "purely methodological" issues
505			_aNotes
505			_aReferences
505			_aIndex
650		0	_aSocial sciences _xResearch.
650		0	_aInterviewing.
856			_uhttps://www.cambridge.org/ca/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/learning-how-ask-sociolinguistic-appraisal-role-interview-social-science-research?format=PB _zPublisher's Website.
856			_uhttps://ocul-uo.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01OCUL_UO/1lm0b9c/alma991023128439705161 _zCheck the UO Library catalog.
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