E) Interviews
Interviews:
- entail a researcher presenting the questions to the informant orally and audio- or video-recording the responses
- give you detailed information from a few people
- prepare a list of questions, plan out a series of potential pathways through the list
- find a balance between simply barking out questions in a preordained order and letting the interviewee take over and tell you things you don't want to know
- if appropriate, try to elicit the data you want by deliberately setting up situations or asking specific questions
Guideline questions for interviews:
- see Interview Schedule (Tagliamonte) (adapted from the work of William Labov, 1973)
- drawn from the companion website of Tagliamonte, Sali A. 2006. Analysing Sociolinguistic Variation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Considerations in connection with questionnaires and interviews:
- results depend heavily on the way the questions are formulated
- direct (explicit) or indirect (inexplicit) approach?
- open questions or closed questions?
- avoid loaded questions and leading questions
- many potential pitfalls
- difficulty of getting the questions right
- if possible, run a pilot study
source: Wray & Bloomer (2006: chapter 13)
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