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From Pragmatics to DialogueEdited by Edda Weigand and Istvan Kecskes
[Dialogue Studies 31] 2018
► pp. 83–112
Research interview as social interaction
Epistemic implications
This chapter discusses and empirically illustrates the epistemic implications of a dialogic approach to language when used as a research tool. I analyze examples of one of the most commonly used methods in social science research, the interview, and discuss some implications of foregrounding the performative and emergent properties of dialogues occurring between the researcher and her informants. I contend that applying a dialogic view of language to the specific forms of talk used for doing research, requires a substantial change in how we conceive of scientific knowledge and what we expect from it. This is perhaps the reason why researchers often ignore contemporary linguistic theory and preserve their working tools from it: what if we consider referentiality as a dialogic, interactive achievement?
Keywords: epistemics, language use, indexicality, intersubjectivity, referentiality, reflexivity, relativism, research interview, social interaction
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Research interviewing: What’s in a practice?
- 3.Meaning as a bounded, stable and observable entity: The bias theories
- 4.Telling in interviews: When and for whom meaning is an interactive achievement?
- 5.From a dialogic point of view: Research interview as social interaction
- 6.The question – answer game
- 7.Post hoc ergo propter hoc: Contradictions or context shaped contributions?
- 8.Meaning and the dialogical organization of talk: Rethinking the researcher’s effect
- 9.The dialogical nature of research interviewing: The epistemological consequences of a neglected dimension
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Published online: 05 October 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.31.06car
https://doi.org/10.1075/ds.31.06car
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