Summary
Contents
Subject index
This is a concise introduction to the richness and scope of interviewing in social science research, teaching the craft of interview research with practical, hands-on guidance. Incorporating discussion of the wide variety of methods in interview-based research and the different approaches to reading the data, this book will help you to navigate the broad field of qualitative research with confidence and get out there and start collecting your data.
Transcribing interviews
Transcribing interviews
objectives
After reading this chapter, you should know about:
- the post-interview stages of working with the outcome of the interview: transcribing, analyzing, verifying and reporting the knowledge produced in the interview conversations;
- the transformation of the oral interview conversation to a written text as transcripts amenable to analysis;
- some principal differences between oral and written language;
- practical issues of recording and transcribing;
- reliability and validity of transcriptions; and
- computer programs facilitating interview analysis.
Oral and written language
The quality of interviewing is often discussed, whereas the quality of transcription is seldom addressed in qualitative research literature. This may be related to a traditional lack of attention among social scientists to the linguistic medium they work with. Rather than being a simple clerical task, transcription is an interpretative process, where the ...
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