Considerable analytic attention has focused on interviewees' talk as 'accounts', or 'versions',
rather than as direct reports of attitudes or perceptions. However, despite recognition of the …

This paper contributes to an ongoing debate about the validity of interview data and the
ways in which they are interpreted in the 'interview society'. We understand the need for an …

Atkinson and Silverman's (1997) depiction of the Interview Society analysed the dominance
of interview studies that seek to elicit respondents 'experiences' and 'perceptions'. Their …

T he term discourse analysis (DA) has a wide reference and is often characterized as an
umbrella designator for a growing range of different theoretical approaches, analytic …

Interviewing is an invaluable tool for the qualitative researcher. Steinar Kvale provides
coverage of both the theoretical background and the practical aspects of the interview …

Utterances produced by informants in interview situations can be said to have a triple
orientation. They are, firstly, descriptive or demonstrative of the life world of the speaker …

The basic principles of the technique of interviewing have often been described (see 5.2).
Here our principal focus will be on the activity of the interviewer in the creation of a social …

Research interviews are a form of interaction jointly constructed by the interviewer and
interviewee, what Silverman (2001: 104) calls 'interview-as-local-accomplishment'. From this …

A n interview transcript sits in front of me, on top of a pile. I did the interview, tape-recorded it,
and transcribed it. The topic is older women married to younger men; this interview is with a …

This article focuses on what has been referred to as the 'radical critique'of interview data, to
which Paul Atkinson has been an important contributor. This critique challenges the two …