The ethnographic interview as discursive practice: analysis of meta-discursive clues and the emergence of native categories
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https://doi.org/10.11606/2179-0892.ra.2014.87770Keywords:
Ethnography, interview, meta-discourse, emerging categories.Abstract
The ethnographic interview, considered as a discursive practice, is a process in which information is co-produced by the interviewer and the interviewee, who guide the interpretation of what is said by the means of meta-discursive clues. The interpretative frameworks of both of them are articulated thanks to the reflexive and the indexical features of language, which gauge the actors’ social positions during the interview’s performance. The participants’ practical and theoretical logics, the emerging categories and the interview situation itself determine –and are transformed by- this discursive practice. I will analyze an interview in order to address how some meta-discursive clues operate in the interaction between the interviewer and the interviewee and how certain emerging categories make a clash of senses amazing the researcher and directing the construction the object of study.
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