Response Work

Approaching Answers to Open Interviews as Readings

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7364740
AutoresGerhard Nijhof (University of Amsterdam, autor correspondente)
Ano1997
Volume3
Fascículo2
Páginas169-187
Data de publicação1997-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/107780049700300202
OpenAlexW2053679227
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas24

Two approaches to the analysis of textual data—exposition of the meaning of texts and interpretation by the researcher—are evaluated m a reanalysis of Oakley's (1980) research. Three assumptions of these approaches are established: (1) that a formulation's meaning can be located in the words of the formulation; (2) that a researcher can read the meaning; (3) that a theory can be used to clarify the meaning. All three assumptions are unacceptable in the field of empirical sociology, which regards social meaning not as being situated in the words of a formulation but instead as being realized in responses to, or readings of, previous formulations. Instead of exposing or interpreting the respondent's words, readings of formulations make it possible to describe the meaning of what the respondent is saying, first, by regarding the answer as a reading of the interviewer's question, and, second, by seeing it as an internal reading of the respondents' earlier formulations

Epistemology · Exposition (narrative · Field (mathematics · Interpretation (philosophy · Interview · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Reading (process · Respondent · Situated · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Artificial Intelligence