Interactional Studies of Qualitative Research Interviews

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Kathryn Roulston | University of Georgia

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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.

[Not in series, 220] 2019. xviii, 330 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.220

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements | pp. ix–9

Contributors | pp. xi–xiv

Transcription conventions | pp. xv–xvi

Preface | pp. xvii–xviii

Part I. Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction: Examining the social practices of interviewing

Kathryn Roulston | pp. 3–27

Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews

Introduction to Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews | pp. 31–35

Chapter 2. “Like us you mean?”: Sensitive disability questions and peer research encounters

Valerie Williams | pp. 37–58

Chapter 3. Research interviewers as ‘knowers’ and ‘unknowers’

Kathryn Roulston | pp. 59–78

Chapter 4. On doing ‘being feminist’ and ‘being researcher’: Lessons from a novice interviewer

Brigette Adair Herron | pp. 79–101

Chapter 5. “What does it mean?”: Methodological strategies for interviewing children

Rebecca Ann Smith | pp. 103–124

Chapter 6. Epistemic shifts: Examining interviewer and self-praise in interviews

Stephanie Anne Shelton | pp. 125–140

Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews

Introduction to Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews | pp. 143–146

Chapter 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 | pp. 147–180

Chapter 8. “But you’re gonna ask me questions, right?” : Interactional frame and “for-the-record” orientation in language biography interviews

Daniela Veronesi | pp. 181–200

Chapter 9. “It doesn’t make sense, but it actually does”: Interactional dynamics in focus group interaction

Hanbyul Jung | pp. 201–218

Chapter 10. Continuers in research interviews: A closer look at the construction of rapport in talk about interfaith dialogue

Elizabeth M. Pope | pp. 219–238

Chapter 11. Discourse strategies of mitigation in an oral corpus of narratives of life experience collected in interviews

Carla Aurélia de Almeida | pp. 239–268

Part IV. Summing up

Chapter 12. The way(s) of interviewing: Exploring social studies of interviews

Tim Rapley | pp. 271–282

References | pp. 283–317

Index | pp. 325–330

Author Index | pp. 319–323

“This book is nicely presented with each chapter contributing an important aspect of qualitative research interviews. It makes a substantial methodological contribution to how we might complicate taken-for-granted understanding of qualitative research interviews as straight-forward information gathering tools.”

Zhi Huang, Macquarie University, on Linguist List 30.4437 (21 November 2019)

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