Fieldworker or Foreigner?: Ethnographic Interviewing in Nonnative Languages

Field Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-97

  Winchatz, Michaela R ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ethnography; foreign language; interviewing; misunderstandings; research methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049475576     PISSN: 1525822X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1525822X05279902     Document Type: Article

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