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Chapter 8. “But you’re gonna ask me questions, right?”

Interactional frame and “for-the-record” orientation in language biography interviews
  • Daniela Veronesi
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Interactional Studies of Qualitative Research Interviews
This chapter is in the book Interactional Studies of Qualitative Research Interviews

Abstract

By adopting a “social practice” perspective of qualitative interviews, and thereby considering such tool of data collection as a joint accomplishment of both interviewee and interviewer, in this chapter the author examines language biography interviews as they are co-constructed by conversational partners. Using conversation analysis (CA), the chapter looks at how participants locally negotiate the interactional frame of their encounter as institutional talk leading to the generation of research data. How interviewees display their “for the record” orientation by assessing their own talk, as well by drawing upon the encounter as a resource to let their voice be heard is then discussed.

Abstract

By adopting a “social practice” perspective of qualitative interviews, and thereby considering such tool of data collection as a joint accomplishment of both interviewee and interviewer, in this chapter the author examines language biography interviews as they are co-constructed by conversational partners. Using conversation analysis (CA), the chapter looks at how participants locally negotiate the interactional frame of their encounter as institutional talk leading to the generation of research data. How interviewees display their “for the record” orientation by assessing their own talk, as well by drawing upon the encounter as a resource to let their voice be heard is then discussed.

Chapters in this book

  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.220.08ver

Chapters in this book

  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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