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Publication details [#6409]
Macaulay, Ronald K.S. 1984. Chattering, nattering and blethering: Informal interviews as speech events. In Enninger, Werner and Lilith M. Haynes, eds. Studies in language ecology. Franz Steiner Verlag. pp. 51–64.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
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M. argues that good speech samples CAN be obtained from single face-to-face interviews with strangers if the circumstances are right, and that interviewing is an essential part of sociolinguistic methodology.