Challenges of Interviewers' Institutional Positionings: Taking Account of Interview Content and the Interaction

Tracy, Karen; Robles, Jessica S.

doi:10.1080/19312458.2010.505501

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“…Conversely, the participants might have shared their experiences more willingly with a fellow Muslim than with a researcher from a different background. We therefore address in the succeeding texts the important considerations outlined by Tracy and Robles (, p. 196) who state that researchers should ‘take seriously the interaction basis of interviews while developing insightful and defensible content‐focused news’. Here, the analysis focused on the interviewer's questions and how the participants responded to, took up, or resisted her formulations in making sense of their experiences in Britain and the consequential relevance for adopting or maintaining specific cultural forms.…”

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It is not quite cricket: Muslim immigrants' accounts of integration into UK society

Anjum

McVittie

McKinlay

2017

Euro J Social Psych

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Recent events demonstrate the need for greater understanding of intercultural relations between Muslim minorities and majority of cultures in host societies. We examine British Muslims' descriptions of their experiences of acculturation. Data from interviews with first‐generation Muslims were analysed by using discourse analysis. Participants' descriptions reflect the acculturation possibilities made available in local interactional contexts. Where invited to choose between assimilation and separation, participants provide ‘trouble‐telling’ accounts that detail the difficulties involved. In contexts involving integration, participants account for their own efforts. By contrast, contexts that allow participants to introduce acculturation in their own terms lead to descriptions of acculturation success. Thus, participants' accounts of relations with British culture reflect not simply orientations towards acculturation but rather how acculturation is framed and negotiated in local contexts: The success or failure of intercultural relations reflects as much how the issues are presented as they do immigrants' acceptance or non‐acceptance of British culture.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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It is not quite cricket: Muslim immigrants' accounts of integration into UK society

Anjum

McVittie

McKinlay

2017

Euro J Social Psych

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“…However, Morgan identifies one kind of interaction he suggests is "almost always" important to attend to as interaction: when partici pants rapidly give multiple, chaining responses, as analyzed in this paper. Ana lysts of discourse and others who value interaction in focus groups suggest that fostering interaction in focus groups is important in many ways, but many stop at the stage of planning focus groups (e.g., Kratz 2010), offer inexplicit suggestions (e.g., Markova et al 2007), or do not explain how their findings can be used in practice or in analysis (with exceptions to the last point, i.e., Puchta and Potter 1999;Tracy and Robles 2010).…”

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“…In discussing how analysts can account for content and interaction in interviews, Tracy and Robles (2010) offer one suggestion to consider "news at an angle" -that the content sought through questions may be produced in interaction, but emerge in indirect ways not obvious in participants' ostensible answers. Further more, Morgan (2010) claims that while many studies have championed the value of analyzing focus group interaction, not enough studies offer detailed ways such analyses can guide interview conduct.…”

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Interactional formats and institutional context: a practical and exploitable distinction in interviews

Robles

2014

Text &Amp; Talk

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This paper applies practically oriented discourse analysis to focus group interviews using conversation analytic principles to show how interac tional 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 a 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 tech niques for doing and attending to conversational and institutional interaction formats, including turntaking organization, embodied acts, addressivity, and emotion displays, and how those techniques allow participants to coconstruct emergent stances alongside answering questions.

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“…Different understandings in relation to attentiveness, empathy and anticipatory inference were identified through content analysis (Krippendorff 2013). It is important to bear in mind, however, that these participants' understandings (and associated stances) emerged through dialogue with the interviewer, and so should be understood as potentially designed with respect to the presumed or perceived stance of the interviewer (Potter and Hepburn 2005;Tracy and Robles 2010). In addition, the three notions were not always clearly separated in participants' accounts of them.…”

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The role of emic understandings in theorizing im/politeness: The metapragmatics of attentiveness, empathy and anticipatory inference in Japanese and Chinese

Fukushima

Haugh

2014

Journal of Pragmatics

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While the notion of face has continued to play a key role in many accounts of im/politeness, there has increasingly been calls for im/politeness to be theorized in its own right, drawing from the emic understandings of members in relation to im/politeness. In this paper, we make a contribution to this latter agenda by comparing emic understandings of attentiveness, and the related notions of empathy and anticipatory inference, in Japanese and Taiwanese Mandarin Chinese. Drawing from metapragmatic interviews with Japanese and Taiwanese participants from two different generations, we suggest that there are both similarities and differences in the ways in which these notions are conceptualized among speakers of Japanese and Mandarin Chinese spoken in Taiwan. It was found that while the participants evaluated these practices positively, and in some cases linked to politeness concerns, in other instances they evaluated them negatively. Intracultural variability also emerged in the course of our cross-generational-cultural comparison. We conclude that further work investigating the metapragmatics of interpersonal notions such as attentiveness, empathy and anticipatory inference is necessary if we are to better understand the moral grounds on which evaluations of im/politeness are made across different languages and cultures.

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Challenges of Interviewers' Institutional Positionings: Taking Account of Interview Content and the Interaction

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

It is not quite cricket: Muslim immigrants' accounts of integration into UK society

It is not quite cricket: Muslim immigrants' accounts of integration into UK society

Interactional formats and institutional context: a practical and exploitable distinction in interviews

The role of emic understandings in theorizing im/politeness: The metapragmatics of attentiveness, empathy and anticipatory inference in Japanese and Chinese

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