The discursive management of identity in interviews with female former colonials of the Belgian Congo ; Scrutinizing the role of the interviewer
Whilst interviews are often regarded as an essential tool for social science, it has long been recognized that the interviewer has a formative role in the locally situated socio-communicative events that interviews are. Using transcripts of interviews elicited from female former colonials in the Belgian Congo, this article examines the way in which the interviewer, himself a former colonial, manages the construction of meaning and identity in relation to two intricately interwoven issues, namely the position of women and colonial society more generally. Findings demonstrate that the interviewe... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) ; Pragmatics / Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) ; Pragmatics ; page 131-155 ; ISSN 1018-2101 2406-4238 |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Schlagwörter: | Linguistics and Language / Philosophy / Language and Linguistics |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26928361 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.24.1.06mie |