Houtkoop1997a

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Houtkoop1997a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Houtkoop1997a
Author(s) Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra
Title Being friendly in survey interviews
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Tag(s) EMCA, Survey Interviews
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Year 1997
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 28
Number 5
Pages 591–623
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DOI 10.1016/S0378-2166(97)00018-0
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Abstract

This paper discusses the devices through which survey interviewers construct a ‘personal interview style’. The first part describes several types of interviewers' friendly reactions to respondents' assessable statements. The second part shows how interviewers may reformulate ‘neutrally’ scripted questions in such a way that they include a preference for a ‘socially desirable’ answer. In survey methodological terms, the interviewers transform neutral questions into leading questions. These are two turn sequential levels on which interviewers may be seen as ‘doing being personal’.

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