Interview German · revision 36265

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=c. 1870|origins=la videō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈɪntɐˌvjuː/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''Interview''' ''n'' (genitive Interviews, plural Interviews)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|en|interview]], adopted about 1870 from the language of American journalists.^(Pfeifer 1993)^(DFWB)^(Kluge 2011|449) The English noun is an anglicised form of [[fr|entrevue|t=meeting]], a noun derived from [[m|fr|entrevoir|t=to see each other briefly, meet]], from [[m|fr|voir|t=to see]], ultimately [[la|videō|t=to see]] with [[m|la|inter|t=between]].^(Kluge 2011|449)^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Duden 7 2020|397) The sense “questioning by a reporter” developed in American English with the methods of journalism;^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Paul 2002) Paul dates it there to 1869.^(Pfeifer 1993)^(Paul 2002)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The German Fremdwörterbuch calls it a young, properly American journalists' word that was naturalised about 1870.^(DFWB) In 1875 Gutzkow wrote that he had not travelled as an ''Interviewer'' like a pushy correspondent of the ''New York Herald''.^(DFWB)^(Paul 2002)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ The meaning remained the journalistic conversation, usually with a well-known person and meant for publication; it was later extended to the social sciences, as a means of gathering data, and to medicine and psychology.^(Paul 2002)^(Duden Fremdwörterbuch 2007)^(Duden GWDS 1999) The verb [[interviewen]] is dated by Paul to 1865, while the German Fremdwörterbuch quotes it from 1886.^(Paul 2002)^(DFWB) Hungarian borrowed the word as ''interjú'' in 1880.^(LWP)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1869 – The journalistic sense is recorded in English.^(Paul 2002)

+ * c. 1870 – The word is adopted into German.^(Pfeifer 1993)^(DFWB)

+ * 1875 – Gutzkow uses ''Interviewer''.^(DFWB)

+ * 1880 – Hungarian ''interjú''.^(LWP)

+ * 1886 – ''interviewt'' in Katscher and Stinde.^(DFWB)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # An [[m|en|interview]] by a reporter of the press, radio or television, usually with a well-known person: ''Der Trainer gab nach dem Spiel ein kurzes Interview.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(sociology)'' Systematic questioning of selected people for [[m|en|statistics|alt=statistical]] purposes.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Duden Fremdwörterbuch 2007)

+ # ''(psychology, medicine)'' Methodical questioning of a patient for [[m|en|diagnosis]].^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[interviewen]]

+ * [[Interviewer]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[en|interview]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}