Asking to ask: The strategic function of indirect requests for information in interviews

Macaulay, Marcia

doi:10.1075/prag.6.4.02mac

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Pragmatics
Vol. 6:4 (1996) ► pp.491–509

Asking to ask

The strategic function of indirect requests for information in interviews

Marcia Macaulay

Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 license.

Published online: 1 December 1996

https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.6.4.02mac

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