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interrogative pronoun n
wh-pronouns (who, which, what, whose, who(m), etc.), which are used
to form questions, e.g.:
Which is your book?
What is your name?
see also WH-QUESTION
interrogative sentence n
a sentence which is in the form of a question. For example:
Did you open the window?
Interrogative sentences do not, however, always have the function of a
question. For example:
Could you shut the window?
may be a request for someone to shut the window and not a question
about whether or not the person is able to do so.
see also DECLARATIVE SENTENCE, IMPERATIVE SENTENCE
intertextuality n
the factors that make the use of one text depend on knowledge of other
texts. In interpreting a text a reader is said to make connections between the
text and other texts he or she has encountered.Thus for example, in reading
a story a reader can only make sense of it by reference to other stories previously
encountered. The meaning a person derives from a text is thus said
to result from the interaction between the readers’ knowledge of the social
and literary conventions associated with the text and the genre to which it
belongs, the content of the text itself, and its relationship with other texts.
interval scale n
see SCALE
interview guide
interview n
a conversation between an investigator and an individual or a group of individuals
in order to gather information. Interviews are used to gather data
for linguistic analysis (see FIELDWORK) and may be used in NEEDS ANALYSIS.
see DEPTH INTERVIEW, FOCUSED INTERVIEW, GUIDED INTERVIEW, INTERVIEW
GUIDE, STRUCTURED INTERVIEW, UNSTRUCTURED INTERVIEW
interview guide n
a list of topics used by an interviewer during an interview. An interview
guide helps the interviewer make sure that the important topics have been
covered during the interview, but it differs from an interview schedule
(see GUIDED INTERVIEW) in that it contains only the topics to be asked
about and not the actual questions that will be asked.
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