Interactional Studies of Qualitative Research Interviews
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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
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. ix
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Contributors | pp. xi–xiv
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Transcription conventions | pp. xv–xvi
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Preface | pp. xvii–xviii
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Part I. Introduction
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Chapter 1. Introduction: Examining the social practices of interviewingKathryn Roulston | pp. 3–27
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Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews
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Introduction to Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews | pp. 31–35
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Chapter 2. “Like us you mean?”: Sensitive disability questions and peer research encountersValerie Williams | pp. 37–58
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Chapter 3. Research interviewers as ‘knowers’ and ‘unknowers’Kathryn Roulston | pp. 59–78
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Chapter 4. On doing ‘being feminist’ and ‘being researcher’: Lessons from a novice interviewerBrigette Adair Herron | pp. 79–101
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Chapter 5. “What does it mean?”: Methodological strategies for interviewing childrenRebecca Ann Smith | pp. 103–124
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Chapter 6. Epistemic shifts: Examining interviewer and self-praise in interviewsStephanie Anne Shelton | pp. 125–140
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Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews
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Introduction to Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews | pp. 143–146
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Chapter 7. “That’s a stupid question!”: Competing perspectives and language choice in an English-Japanese bilingual research interviewAmy Snyder Ohta and Matthew T. Prior | pp. 147–180
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Chapter 8. “But you’re gonna ask me questions, right?” : Interactional frame and “for-the-record” orientation in language biography interviewsDaniela Veronesi | pp. 181–200
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Chapter 9. “It doesn’t make sense, but it actually does”: Interactional dynamics in focus group interactionHanbyul Jung | pp. 201–218
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Chapter 10. Continuers in research interviews: A closer look at the construction of rapport in talk about interfaith dialogueElizabeth M. Pope | pp. 219–238
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Chapter 11. Discourse strategies of mitigation in an oral corpus of narratives of life experience collected in interviewsCarla Aurélia de Almeida | pp. 239–268
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Part IV. Summing up
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Chapter 12. The way(s) of interviewing: Exploring social studies of interviewsTim Rapley | pp. 271–282
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References | pp. 283–317
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Index | pp. 325–330
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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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2019. Publications Received.
Language in Society 48:5 ► pp. 803 ff. 
Lee, Yew-Jin
2023. Job, career and calling: A teacher’s work orientation is/as discursive work during research interviewing.
Oxford Review of Education ► pp. 1 ff.
Perrino, Sabina
2020. Methods in Linguistic Anthropology: Experiments.
In The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology,
► pp. 1 ff.
Perrino, Sabina & Rachelle Jereza
2020. “They are just a danger”: Racialized ideologies in Northern Italy and the Philippines.
International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2020:265 ► pp. 33 ff.
Prior, Matthew T.
2019. “I am an adult now”.
Pragmatics and Society 10:3 ► pp. 423 ff.
Roulston, Kathryn
2019. Using Archival Data to Examine Interview Methods: The Case of the Former Slave Project.
International Journal of Qualitative Methods 18 ► pp. 160940691986700 ff.
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Communication Studies
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009030 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics