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Elliot Mishler: Research Interviewing: Context and Narrative Traditional, mainstream interviews – survey research – are inadequate and there is a need for alternative: narrative analysis. Answers vary despite attempts at standardization and the issue of ‘meaning’ is highlighted. Reponses are stripped of meaning, loss of context. Interviews are dependent upon natural language competences of both coders and investigators- how can you standardize this practice? Language is indexical:
Analysis is required of above points. Leads Mishler to explore "how is the narrative influenced by the interview situation and what role does the interviewer play in its production?" (92) Regardless of the type of narrative analysis that is used, main advantage is the position that respondents’ accounts are stories, meaningful discourse. Stories appear and re-appear in interviews and reports need to focus on how stories are made, various meanings, and the affect of interviewer/interviewee struggle for understanding throughout course of interview. Useful theoretical model is one that attempts to differentiate between
Critical research in field has long way to address problematic issues of
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