The researcher as insider versus the researcher as outsider: Enhancing rigour through language and cultural sensitivity

Social Indicators Research Series

Volumn 34, Issue , 2008, Pages 35-48

  Irvine, Fiona ^a   Roberts, Gwerfyl ^b   Bradbury Jones, Caroline ^c  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cultural sensitivity; Interpreter; Language issue; Minority language; Research involving multi language; Researcher as insider; Researcher as outsider; Rigour; Translation and translator

Indexed keywords

EID: 85200475514     PISSN: 13876570     EISSN: 22150099     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8567-3_3     Document Type: Chapter

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