Richards, Keith, 1952-. (2011) Using micro-analysis in interviewer training: 'continuers' and interviewer positioning. Applied Linguistics, Vol.32 (No.1). pp. 95-112. ISSN 0142-6001

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Abstract

Despite the recent growth of interest in the interactional construction of research interviews and advances made in our understanding of the nature of such encounters, relatively little attention has been paid to the implications of this for interviewer training, with the result that advice on interviewing techniques tends to be very general. Drawing on analyses of a feature of research interviews that is usually treated as analytically insignificant, this article makes a case for more interactionally sensitive approaches to interviewer training. It focuses on interviewer recipiency in a database of over 40 research interviews conducted by academics and research students to show how apparently insignificant shifts in receipt tokens can have important implications in terms of the developing talk. The implications of this for researcher training are discussed and the article makes recommendations for ways in which attention can be drawn to the discoursal dimension in interviewing practice.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Interviewing -- Technique, Interviewing -- Study and teaching, Research -- Methodology, Conversation analysis
Journal or Publication Title:	Applied Linguistics
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0142-6001
Date:	February 2011
Volume:	Vol.32
Number:	No.1
Number of Pages:	18
Page Range:	pp. 95-112
Identification Number:	10.1093/applin/amq040
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Open Access
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