2008
DOI: 10.1080/13645570701401370
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Combining Narration‐Based Interviews with Topical Interviews: Methodological Reflections on Research Practices

Abstract: While qualitative interviewing methods based on story telling are powerful in eliciting narrations that are structured according to interviewees' relevance systems, topical interviewing can build upon existing knowledge resulting from prior (interpretational) work. The problem-centred interview (PCI) is an attempt to integrate both styles of qualitative interviewing and is presently in wide use in the German-language social scientific community. It is especially helpful for research endeavours that focus on bi… Show more

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“…The interviews were semi-structured, encouraging the women to reflect on their own perceptions and talk freely about their childfree life (Scheibelhofer, 2007). The aim of the interviews was to explore the lived experiences of voluntarily childless women in contemporary Swedish society.…”
Section: The Interviewsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The interviews were semi-structured, encouraging the women to reflect on their own perceptions and talk freely about their childfree life (Scheibelhofer, 2007). The aim of the interviews was to explore the lived experiences of voluntarily childless women in contemporary Swedish society.…”
Section: The Interviewsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…All interviews produced detailed accounts of the interviewees' experiences (Holt 2010;TrierBieniek 2012). The semi-structured character of the interviews encouraged the informants to reflect on their experiences and to share them in an open manner (Scheibelhofer 2007). The interviews were recorded with one exception.…”
Section: Empirical Materials and Methodological Considerationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In research on language maintenance, structured interviews are the least appropriate since they focus on a very narrow way of representing participants' answers and do not provide a space for openness and sharing life narratives. Scheibelhofer (2008) emphasize the benefits of "problem-centered interviews" in qualitative research involving some autobiographical aspects because this type of interviews opens with a broad introduction offering a participant to start with a narrative beginning which is later elaborated on with the help of semi-structured part. Longitudinal qualitative interviews are the most insightful if there is a need to understand changes and developments among the same participants over a period of time (Hermanowicz, 2013) , and may be applicable in terms of research on language maintenance and loss which occurs not as a single specific event but more like a long process, often invisible to those involved.…”
Section: Reflective Narratives and Interviews In Heritage Language Mamentioning
confidence: 99%