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'More than any other recent work of a self-proclaimed hermeneutic/phenomenological 'reflexive' or self-reflective nature, Learning How to Ask avoids both the merely autobiographical, and the negative and unproductively relativistic form of critique of the fieldwork enterprise. Rather, it applies the tools of speech event analysis that have emerged from the cumulative formulations of a number of traditions of research and teaches us 'how to ask' with a new, sophisticated level of understanding. An argument about methodological refinement, it is at the same time a theoretical contribution to the linguistic anthropology of a foundational speech event in social science.' Michael Silverstein, University of Chicago 'I would call this book 'brilliant' if the word were not so overused. Briggs's work is ethnography at its best, both critical and constructive. He is critically alert to the ways in which modes of inquiry condition what the fieldworker finds, and constructive in showing a way to arrive at grounded understanding.' Dell H. Hymes, University of Pennsylvania

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