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Publication details [#55145]

Modan, Gabriella and Amy Shuman. 2011. Positioning the interviewer: Strategic uses of embedded orientation in interview narratives. Language in Society 40 (1) : 13–25.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
embedded clause | ideology | information processing | interview | narrative | political system | sociolinguistics
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Journal WWW
journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study argues that the content of embedded orientation clauses in sociolinguistic interviews is important in itself. Rather than only serving as background information, embedded orientation can perform considerable ideological work.