Language choices and 'blind shadows': Investigating interviews with chinese participants

Qualitative Research

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 505-535

  Cortazzi, Martin ^a   Pilcher, Nick ^b   Jin, Lixian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b EDINBURGH NAPIER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese participants; interviews; language choice

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054771421     PISSN: 14687941     EISSN: 17413109     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468794111413225     Document Type: Article

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