Interactional studies of qualitative research interviews / edited by Kathryn Roulston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Roulston, Kathryn, 1962- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Research--Methodology.

Social sciences.

Qualitative research--Methodology.

Qualitative research.

Interviewing.

Interviewing in sociology.

Interviews--Methods.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

Methodological accounts of research interviews find that how researchers use this tool in their work varies widely: there are many “ways” of interviewing. This edited collection unpacks the interactional dynamics of qualitative research interviews from studies conducted in education, second language acquisition, applied linguistics and disability studies from scholars in the UK, USA, Italy, Portugal and Korea. These studies explore the interactional details of how the identities of researchers and their participants matter for the generation of interview data, as well as the kinds of discursive resources and social actions that occur in tandem with the production of data for research projects. Given the widespread use of qualitative interviews for social research, this book provides a robust contribution to what Tim Rapley has called the “social studies of interviewing.” This book is relevant to audiences across disciplines who use the interview as a primary research method.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Transcription conventions

Preface

1. Introduction: Examining the social practices of interviewing / Kathryn Roulston

2. 'Like us you mean?': Sensitive disability questions and peer research encounters / Valerie Williams

3. Research interviewers as 'knowers' and 'unknowers' / Kathryn Roulston

4. On doing 'being feminist' and 'being researcher': Lessons from a novice interviewer / Brigette Adair Herron 79

'What does it mean?': methodological strategies for interviewing children / Rebecca Ann Smith

6. Epistemic shifts: Examining interviewer and self-praise in interviews / Stephanie Anne Shelton

7. 'That's a stupid question!': Competing perspectives and language choice in an English-Japanese bilingual research interview / Amy Snyder Ohta and Matthew T. Prior

8. 'But you're gonna ask me questions, right?' : Interactional frame and 'for-the-record' orientation in language biography interviews / Daniela Veronesi

9. 'It doesn't make sense, but it actually does': Interactional dynamics in focus group interaction / Hanbyul Jung

10. Continuers in research interviews: A closer look at the construction of rapport in talk about interfaith dialogue / Elizabeth M. Pope

11. Discourse strategies of mitigation in an oral corpus of narratives of life experience collected in interviews / Carla Aurélia de Almeida

12. The way(s) of interviewing: Exploring social studies of interviews / Tim Rapley

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027262905

902726290X