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On Eliciting Information: Dialogues with Child Informants
Author(s) -
Tammivaara Julie,
Enright D. Scott
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1986.17.4.04x0616r
Subject(s) - ethnography , scope (computer science) , sociology , educational anthropology , epistemology , dual (grammatical number) , psychology , pedagogy , anthropology , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , programming language
This article describes some of the characteristics of questions as they uniquely operate in the ethnographic interview setting. The discussion centers on the dual nature of questions and on their formulation, with specific attention paid to issues of assumptions, categories, and scope. The insights presented on ethnographic questioning in general are then applied to the elicitation of information from child informants.