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Volume 13 - Issue 1 - March 1984

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  • Learning how to ask: Native metacommunicative competence and the incompetence of fieldworkers

  • Charles L. Briggs
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    18 December 2008, pp. 1-28

  • Every speech community boasts an array of devices for characterizing communicative events. These native metacommunicative repertoires are culturally patterned in terms of both use and acquisition. Interviews meet with varying degrees of success by virtue of their relative (in-)compatibility with the norms underlying such events. An analysis of the way in which Spanish speakers in rural New Mexico gain metacommunicative competence suggests that native metacommunicative routines provide a rich source of sociolinguistic and social/cultural data and that awareness of these repertoires can assist fieldworkers in using interviews more appropriately and effectively. (Interview techniques, metacommunication, acquisition of sociolinguistic competence, ethnopoetics, New Mexican Spanish)

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  • LSY volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    18 December 2008, pp. f1-f2
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  • LSY volume 13 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

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    18 December 2008, pp. b1-b3
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