Prior2026
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Prior2026 |
| Author(s) | Matthew T. Prior, Steven Talmy |
| Title | CA and qualitative research interviews |
| Editor(s) | Matthew Burdelski, Tim Greer |
| Tag(s) | EMCA, Qualitative interviewing |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year | 2026 |
| Language | English |
| City | London |
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| Pages | 227–241 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781032720852-16 |
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| Book title | The Routledge Handbook of Conversation Analysis |
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Abstract
As a form of institutional talk-in-interaction par excellence, interviews have long featured in conversation analysis (CA) research, both as a data resource and as a site for investigation itself. This chapter focuses on CA’s contributions to the institution of the qualitative research interview. It begins with a discussion of competing approaches to conceiving of qualitative research interviews, before turning to ethnomethodology’s conception of the local, situated, order-producing achievement of social action, which is central to CA and to the theorization of interviews using CA. Following the problematization of the distinction between “naturalistic” vs. “researcher-provoked” data, the focus turns to three powerful contributions that CA has provided for the analysis of interview data: recipient design, adjacency pairs, and formulations and reformulations. The chapter concludes with a discussion of future directions in applied linguistics for the analysis of the emergent, locally contingent, and epistemically grounded actions and activities that constitute the institution of the qualitative research interview.
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