All interviews were administered by an interviewer, and participants had the option to answer questions in the language they were more comfortable with, either Arabic or English.
There is a question, however, in the language Clinton used, the particular lip service she chose to pay.
Our procedure for translation followed the example of Pavlish [ 42] in which the lead researcher asked questions in English and a translator repeated the question in the local language.
These are answers to the main question in the compulsory language-and-culture section, which receive absolutely no points.
As Church famously pointed out (see Church 1943, p. 45), construing propositional attitude verbs as relating agents to sentences seems to require that the agent in question understands the language used in the report.
In instances where participants faced difficulties in understanding questions asked, the research assistants were trained to explain the meaning of the question in lay language to the participants.
He or she then advised students to use open exercise books to ensure privacy of their responses and read each question in turn, in the language of choice of the class, encouraging participants to wait until they heard each question before writing their answer on the scannable form.
