Language in qualitative research
What have conversation analysts found that people generally do to “repair” the damage caused by a “dispreferred response”?
Provide justifications for their action
Correct themselves and give the preferred response
Brazen it out and pretend they don’t care
Run away in a panic
Provide justifications for their action
Ethnomethodologists and conversation analysts are interested in studying the way in which people “account” for behaviour that was unexpected or potentially threatening to the interaction order. If one person invites another to a party, for example, clearly the “preferred response” is acceptance. However, when the invitation is declined, a “dispreferred response”, the person invited will often go on to provide a set of reasons to justify their decision, which reassures the ‘inviter’ that their relationship is not in jeopardy. These responses indicate nothing at all about the motivations of the people involved, just their conversation patterns.
Reference: Bryman: Social Research Methods: 5th Edition Page(s) 529
Reference: Bryman: Social Research Methods: 5th Edition Page(s) 529
Provide justifications for their action Ethnomethodologists and conversation analysts are interested in studying the way in which people “account” for behaviour that was unexpected or potentially threatening to the interaction order. If one person invites another to a party, for example, clearly the “preferred response” is acceptance. However, when the invitation is declined, a “dispreferred response”, the person invited will often go on to provide a set of reasons to justify their decision, which reassures the ‘inviter’ that their relationship is not in jeopardy. These responses indicate nothing at all about the motivations of the people involved, just their conversation patterns.
Reference: Bryman: Social Research Methods: 5th Edition Page(s) 529
Reference: Bryman: Social Research Methods: 5th Edition Page(s) 529
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A. An interviewer and interviewee sitting next to each other
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D. A mechanism used to repair an embarrassing mistake
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A. There is no pre-existing material reality that constrains individual action
B. Social structures determine the way individuals use language
C. The technique is incompatible with feminist principles
D. Quantitative research is inherently superior to qualitative research
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A. Intake of breath
B. Prolonged sound
C. Emphasis on the next word
D. Slight pause
In CA, the term “indexicality” means that:
A. The meaning of an utterance depends on the context in which it is used
B. Speech acts can be listed and indexed after transcription
C. Words are constitutive of the social world in which they are located
D. People tend to wave their index finger in the air while speaking
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A. A method rather than a theory
B. A resource rather than a topic
C. A theory rather than a method
D. A topic rather than a resource
Potter & Wetherell use the term “interpretative repertoires” to refer to:
A. The process of making non-factual data appear to be factual
B. The general resources people use to perform discursive acts
C. The frames of reference audiences use to hear messages
D. The stock of academic knowledge people draw upon in sociology
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