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Chapter 4. On doing ‘being feminist’ and ‘being researcher’

Lessons from a novice interviewer
  • Brigette Adair Herron
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Interactional Studies of Qualitative Research Interviews
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Abstract

Novice interviewers can face many problems related to interviewing technique, theoretical and ethical tensions, developing rapport, and the production of knowledge and identities with strangers and in cross-cultural contexts. Reanalyzing problematic or failed interviews using ethnomethodological (EM) approaches and the tools of membership categorization analysis (MCA) is one way of exploring minute details of interview talk to improve interview conduct. Using an EM approach and the tools of MCA, this chapter re-examines previously abandoned interview data to demonstrate how conversational resources used by a novice interviewer and interviewee led to the production of shared understandings and the production of various identities in cross-cultural contexts. This chapter concludes with recommendations for using this kind of analysis when training novice interviewers. This work recommends an intentional approach to thinking through researcher ethics before interviews are conducted to promote interview practices where data are generated, analyzed, and represented in more ethical ways.

Abstract

Novice interviewers can face many problems related to interviewing technique, theoretical and ethical tensions, developing rapport, and the production of knowledge and identities with strangers and in cross-cultural contexts. Reanalyzing problematic or failed interviews using ethnomethodological (EM) approaches and the tools of membership categorization analysis (MCA) is one way of exploring minute details of interview talk to improve interview conduct. Using an EM approach and the tools of MCA, this chapter re-examines previously abandoned interview data to demonstrate how conversational resources used by a novice interviewer and interviewee led to the production of shared understandings and the production of various identities in cross-cultural contexts. This chapter concludes with recommendations for using this kind of analysis when training novice interviewers. This work recommends an intentional approach to thinking through researcher ethics before interviews are conducted to promote interview practices where data are generated, analyzed, and represented in more ethical ways.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements ix
  4. Contributors xi
  5. Transcription conventions xv
  6. Preface xvii
  7. Part I. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. Introduction 3
  9. Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews
  10. Introduction to Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews 31
  11. Chapter 2. “Like us you mean?” 37
  12. Chapter 3. Research interviewers as ‘knowers’ and ‘unknowers’ 59
  13. Chapter 4. On doing ‘being feminist’ and ‘being researcher’ 79
  14. Chapter 5. “What does it mean?” 103
  15. Chapter 6. Epistemic shifts 125
  16. Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews
  17. Introduction to Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews 143
  18. Chapter 7. “That’s a stupid question!” 147
  19. Chapter 8. “But you’re gonna ask me questions, right?” 181
  20. Chapter 9. “It doesn’t make sense, but it actually does” 201
  21. Chapter 10. Continuers in research interviews 219
  22. Chapter 11. Discourse strategies of mitigation in an oral corpus of narratives of life experience collected in interviews 239
  23. Part IV. Summing up
  24. Chapter 12. The way(s) of interviewing 271
  25. References 283
  26. Author index 319
  27. Subject index 325
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.220.04her

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Acknowledgements ix
  4. Contributors xi
  5. Transcription conventions xv
  6. Preface xvii
  7. Part I. Introduction
  8. Chapter 1. Introduction 3
  9. Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews
  10. Introduction to Part II. Exploring the interactional details of interviewer-interviewee identities and knowledge production in research interviews 31
  11. Chapter 2. “Like us you mean?” 37
  12. Chapter 3. Research interviewers as ‘knowers’ and ‘unknowers’ 59
  13. Chapter 4. On doing ‘being feminist’ and ‘being researcher’ 79
  14. Chapter 5. “What does it mean?” 103
  15. Chapter 6. Epistemic shifts 125
  16. Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews
  17. Introduction to Part III. Exploring conversational resources and social actions produced in interviews 143
  18. Chapter 7. “That’s a stupid question!” 147
  19. Chapter 8. “But you’re gonna ask me questions, right?” 181
  20. Chapter 9. “It doesn’t make sense, but it actually does” 201
  21. Chapter 10. Continuers in research interviews 219
  22. Chapter 11. Discourse strategies of mitigation in an oral corpus of narratives of life experience collected in interviews 239
  23. Part IV. Summing up
  24. Chapter 12. The way(s) of interviewing 271
  25. References 283
  26. Author index 319
  27. Subject index 325
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