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Cicourel, Aaron V. 1981. Pragmatic issues in the construction of recent history from interview narratives. In Parret, Herman, Marina Sbisà and Jef Verschueren, eds. Possibilities and limitations of pragmatics. John Benjamins. pp. 105–121. 
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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Annotation
Addresses the following issue: can one identify a set of pragmatic principles which specifies the way in which interview narratives and textual materials are subjected to analysis by historians? C. is interested in the often unreported problems faced and practical knowledge assumed by field researchers.