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Биографичното интервю като събитие: прелиминарната фаза
The Biographical Interview as an Event: the Preliminary Phase

Author(s): Teodora Karamelska
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: biographic interview; documentary method; sequential organization of conversation;

Summary/Abstract: The article presents an analysis of the practical methods whereby a respondent to a biographical interview and the researcher interviewing structure their talk, striving to see each move in their interaction as a ‘document standing in behalf of’ a certain ‘underlying pattern’. The aim is to demonstrate that, from an ethnomethodological viewpoint, even though the interviewer strives to intervene to a minimum, the construction of a biographic narrative is the joint local work of the two participants, and that the first sequences of their talk are of decisive importance for the whole interview.

  • Issue Year: 45/2013
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 76-95
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: Bulgarian
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