communication blunder

is the mistake an ethnographer makes when he attempts to force an interview structure on informants who may have their own cultural ways of communicating information that the interviewer is not aware of.

to use Charles Brigg's term for the mistakes ethnographers make when they attempt to force an interview structure on informants who may have their own cultural ways of communicating information that the interviewer is not aware of (1986, 26, 109) (in mullen the man who adored the negro: 22)

communication blunder, n.All

communication blunder