How and why language matters in evaluation
By: Rodney K. Hopson, editor.
Contributors: Hopson, Rodney K.; American Evaluation Association.
Series: Jossey-Bass education series; New directions for evaluation -- no. 86
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2000
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
Subjects: Evaluation research (Social action programs); Sociolinguistics
Notes: "A publication of the American Evaluation Association."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Overview :; title: language matters -- Michael Quinn Patton; title: Language in defining social problems and in evaluating social programs -- Anna Marie Madison; title: HIV/AIDS talk : implications for prevention intervention and evaluation -- Rodney K. Hopson, Kenya J. Lucas, James A. Peterson; title: Translating evaluation findings into "policy language" -- Kenneth Cabatoff; title: Sociolinguistic dynamics of gender in focus groups -- Courtney L. Brown; title: Beyond the literal : metaphors and why they matter -- Alexis Kaminsky; title: Dialogue for learning : evaluator as critical friend -- Sharon F. Rallis, Gretchen B. Rossman; title: Border lessons : linguistic "rich points" and evaluative understanding-- Michael Agar.