Carlin2009a

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Carlin2009a
BibType ARTICLE
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Author(s) Andrew P. Carlin
Title Edward Rose and linguistic ethnography: An ethno-inquiries approach to interviewing
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Tag(s) EMCA, Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, Interviews, Ethno-inquiries, Cultural trauma, Bomb, Security, Manchester
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Year 2009
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Journal Qualitative Research
Volume 9
Number 3
Pages 331–354
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DOI 10.1177/1468794109106604
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Abstract

This article discusses the 'Ethno-inquiries', founded by Edward Rose, and the analytic affinities with Harold Garfinkel and Harvey Sacks established in the formative development of Ethnomethodology. The article introduces the Ethno-inquiries approach to sociological interviews. Using a project that captured ordinary, oral accounts of the 1996 bombing of Manchester, England, this article shows how the epistemological and methodological attitude of the Ethno-inquiries towards talk — recognizing the linguistic constitution of the social world, avoiding methodological irony, letting informants rather than analysts organize topics — affords fine-grained analyses of ordinary actions within extraordinary events. This article discusses important aspects of interviewing including data gathering and the nature of 'interview data', the selection of interviewees and getting the story. A series of vignettes demonstrates the enabling potential of this analytic attitude towards people's accounts.

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