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is always plagued by the problem of knowing if the responses mean the same thing to interviewee and the interviewer.

This problematizes the notion that the questions and responses mean the same things to interviewee and interviewer. Cicourel (1974c:19) rightly suggests that the only solution to the dilemma is learning about the commonsense understandings and the sociolinguistic background of both parties' (Briggs 'learning' 26)

is best first begun by investigating the metacommunicative repertoire of the group in question.

My contention is that investigating the metacommunicative repertoire of the group in question is the necessary starting point for research. (29)

ethnographic research, n.Definitions

ethnographic research