Asplund-PerezPrieto2020

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Asplund-PerezPrieto2020
BibType ARTICLE
Key Asplund-PerezPrieto2020
Author(s) Stig-Börje Asplund, Héctor Pérez Prieto
Title Approaching life story interviews as sites of interaction: Integrating conversation analysis with a life story approach
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Tag(s) EMCA, Identity, Narrative
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Year 2020
Language English
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Journal Qualitative Research Journal
Volume 20
Number 2
Pages 175–187
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DOI 10.1108/QRJ-03-2019-0033
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Abstract

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore what conversation analysis has to offer when analysing a series of life story interviews aiming to capture how reading and texts are used in a rural working-class man’s identity construction.

Design/methodology/approach The conversation analysis methodology with its explicit focus on embodied social action, activity and conduct in interaction is integrated with a life story approach when analysing and describing the identity constructing processes that take place in life story interview settings.

Findings Through a close and detailed analysis of the interaction between interviewer and interviewee, and by focusing and highlighting the phenomena and identities that are oriented to in the face-to-face interaction here and now (and in relation to there and then), descriptions of the complex and dynamic identity constructing processes that are set into play in the life story interview are possible.

Research limitations/implications It is argued that the approach has a lot to offer when approaching life story data, and thus is a method that can increase the transparency in life story interview research.

Originality/value The paper explores the intersection of what is often seen as diametrically opposed forms of analysis: conversation analysis and narrative inquiry.

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