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Direct linkSchober, Michael F.; Bloom, Jonathan E. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
When survey respondents' answers include pauses, stammers, and hedges, does this indicate that they are in danger of misinterpreting the survey question? Or are disfluencies so common in ordinary discourse that they are nondiagnostic? We analyzed respondents' first utterances after survey questions in a corpus of 42 laboratory-based telephone…
Descriptors: Cues, Research Methodology, Interviews, Misconceptions
