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Download fileInteractional formats and institutional context: a practical and exploitable distinction in interviews
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posted on 2016-08-01, 08:40 authored by Jessica Robles, Evelyn Y. HoThis paper applies practically oriented discourse analysis to focus
group interviews using conversation analytic principles to show how interactional
qualities demonstrably different to analysts are also treated as such by
participants.
We take a grounded practical theory perspective to claim that the
empirical and practical distinction is an exploitable resource for participants,
with important implications for the goals of research interviewing, interviewee
participation in focus groups, and analyses thereof. We identify participant techniques
for doing and attending to conversational and institutional interaction
formats, including turn-taking organization, embodied acts, addressivity, and
emotion displays, and how those techniques allow participants to co-construct
emergent stances alongside answering questions.
Funding
The University of San Francisco’s Jesuit Foundation Grant provided funding for this research.
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