Fogarty-etal2013

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Fogarty-etal2013
BibType ARTICLE
Key Fogarty-etal2013
Author(s) Kathryn Fogarty, Martha Augoustinos, Lisa Kettler
Title Re-thinking rapport through the lens of progressivity in investigative interviews into child sexual abuse
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Tag(s) EMCA, Child sexual abuse, conversation analysis, investigative interview, progressivity, rapport
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Year 2013
Language English
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 15
Number 4
Pages 395–420
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DOI 10.1177/1461445613482429
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Abstract

Building rapport is considered important in investigative interviewing of children about alleged sexual abuse, but theoretical understanding of the nature of rapport and how to judge its presence remains sketchy. This article argues that the conversation analytic concept of progressivity may provide empirical tractability to the concept of rapport and indeed may be partially what people are detecting when they judge the presence of rapport. A single case is analysed, drawn from a corpus of 11 video-taped interviews with children conducted by police in an Australian sexual crime unit. Analysis focuses on how the interviewer responds when progressivity breaks down, and how restoration is collaboratively achieved. Findings are discussed in terms of implications for future work that might investigate a more thoroughly social interactional account of rapport, and in terms of new ideas about what might constitute skilful interviewing practices amongst investigative interviewers.

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