What to do with "i don't know:" Elicitation in ethnographic & survey interviews

Qualitative Sociology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 87-102

  Dick, Hilary Parsons ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communicative events; Ethnographic; Interview methodology; Language and meaning; Mexico; Survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645729074     PISSN: 01620436     EISSN: 15737837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11133-005-9008-3     Document Type: Review

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