Analyzing Race Talk
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Research Interview

Explores different aspects of interviews on race from a discourse analysis perspective.

Harry van den Berg (Edited by), Margaret Wetherell (Edited by), Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra (Edited by)

9780521528023, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 8 January 2004

334 pages
22.9 x 15.3 x 2.2 cm, 0.538 kg

The interview is one of the most important sources of social scientific data yet there has been relatively little exploration of the way interviews are conducted and interpreted. By asking internationally respected scholars from a range of traditions in discourse studies including conversation analysis, discursive psychology, and sociolinguistics to respond to the same material, this exciting new book sheds light on some key differences in methodology and theoretical perspective. Key topics are addressed such as the forms of knowledge produced in interviews, the interview as social interaction and the foundations for the study of talk and texts in qualitative research. The use of interviews exploring attitudes to race further broadens the scope of the book, enabling the contributors to explore sensitive issues around the construction and interpretation of interviews on controversial topics and specifically on issues for race and ethnicity.

1. Introduction Harry van den Berg, Margaret Wetherell and Hanneke Houtkoop-Steenstra
2. Racism and the analysis of cultural resources in interviews Margaret Wetherell
3. Analysing racial discourse: the discursive psychology of Mind-World relationships Derek Edwards
4. Constructivist processes in discourse: a cognitive linguistics perspective David A. Lee
5. Institutional, professional and lifeworld frames in interview talk Srikant Sarangi
6. The uses of absurdity Charles Antaki
7. Multiple voices in talking race: pakeha reported speech in the discursive construction of the racial other Richard Buttny
8. Contradictions in interview discourse Harry van den Berg
9. Racism, happiness and ideology Maykel Verkuyten
10. The frame analysis of research interviews: social categorization and footing in interview discourse Titus Ensink
11. Affiliation and detachment in interview answer receipts Tom Koole
12. Interviewer laughter as an unspecified request for clarification Tony Hak
13. Perspectives and frameworks in interviewers' queries Anita Pomerantz and Alan Zemel
14. Appendix: interview transcripts.

Subject Areas: Social, group or collective psychology [JMH], Sociology & anthropology [JH], Sociolinguistics [CFB]