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Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1982
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Interpreting Discourse: Coherence and the Analysis of Ethnographic Interviews.
Agar, Michael; Hobbs, Jerry R.
Discourse Processes, v5 n1 p1-31 Jan-Mar 1982
Outlines an attempt to use artificial intelligence formalisms as a formal language of description for the complex conversational behavior that occurs in ethnographic interviews. Discusses three kinds of coherence and uses them to analyze the text of an interview. (FL)
Descriptors: Adults, Artificial Intelligence, Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, Interviews, Language Research
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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