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Abstract
What does an autoethnography look like? How do you conduct reliable qualitative research when you are both the researcher and the researched? Where do you find truth as an adult when you discover your life as a child was full of secrets? In his book "A Need to Know: The Clandestine History of a CIA Family”, author H. J. Goodall (2006), tells the story of his personal journey investigating his own life growing up with a father who was a counter-intelligence offer in the cold-war era. While this narrative is an engaging and readable account, it is also a work that probes questions of identity, family codes of language, and the multiple contexts and questions of truth. Furthermore, Goodall’s writing provides a working example of methodology and theory used in autoethnography.
Keywords
Autoethnography, Qualitative Research, Truth, Language
Publication Date
7-23-2012
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
DOI
10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1750
Recommended APA Citation
Cline, T. C. (2012). When Language Lies: Truth, Silence, and Codes of Deception. The Qualitative Report, 17(30), 1-6. https://doi.org/10.46743/2160-3715/2012.1750
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