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Between the Lines: the analysis of interview data as an exact art
Author(s) -
Hull Charles
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/0141192850110103
Subject(s) - interview , semi structured interview , task (project management) , data collection , transcription (linguistics) , psychology , pedagogy , mathematics education , applied psychology , sociology , qualitative research , social science , management , linguistics , philosophy , anthropology , economics
In this paper I shall consider some problems of utilising interview data; in particular those difficulties associated with using as evidence transcripts the analyst has helped create, as interviewer. I shall be talking specifically about data elicited at ‘unstructured’ interviews where the tape‐recorder was visible but not consciously placed to maximise its sustained ‘presence’ in the interaction, and where transcription was the task of a project secretary familiar with the aims of the research but not present at interviews.