Publications

Publication details [#12585]

Boxer, Diana. 1996. Ethnographic interviewing as a research tool in speech-act analysis: The case of complaint. In Gass, Susan M. and Joyce Neu, eds. Speech Acts Across Cultures. Challenges to Communication in a Second Language. (Studies on Language Acquisition 11). De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 217–239.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence | complaining | ethnography of speaking | speech act

Language as a subject

English, American

Annotation

On the benefits of the ethnografic interview in uncovering both tacit and explicit knowledge on community norms regarding speech behavior, focusing especially on complaints performed by native speakers of U.S. English.