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Revisiting Interview Data: Analysing turn-taking in interviews with Thai participants through 'layers of insight'
Message 1: Revisiting Interview Data: Analysing turn-taking in interviews with Thai participants through 'layers of insight'
Date: 28-Dec-2006
From: John Adamson <johnadamson253hotmail.com>
Subject: Revisiting Interview Data: Analysing turn-taking in interviews with Thai participants through 'layers of insight'
Institution: University of Leicester
Program: Applied Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2002
Author: John Lindsay Adamson
Dissertation Title: Revisiting Interview Data: Analysing turn-taking in interviews with Thai participants through 'layers of insight'
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics
Dissertation Director:
Peter Martin
Dissertation Abstract:
This thesis has investigated a small number of transcribed interviews takenfrom an educational setting in Thailand. It has shown how systems of codingspoken discourse can be used to interpret that data but has also stressedthe necessity to employ tools of analysis, especially those which carryThai-specific means of assessment, to gain better insights into theturn-taking behaviour. In this respect, it is a multi-layered investigationinto intercultural communication, employing what I have termed as 'layersof insight' for that process of interpretation.
The research undertaken also has an added element of using data which wasoriginally collected for the purpose of learning strategies. This is incontrast to the present objective of looking at how the interviewsthemselves were constructed by both participants. I have argued that this'double focus' requires the researcher to carry forward the contextualinformation about the participants and interview as a speech event to thepresent research in order to help better interpret the data. This processhas been useful, but, at times, prone to some overlap and redundancy. Inorder to organize the multitude of 'layers' and potential insights into theturn-taking of the interviews, much emphasis has been placed upon themethodological process streamlined into two steps.
The results of the data analysis have revealed that the turn-taking codingsystem requires further experimentation and that a future 'revisiting' ofthe data may require careful re-organising of the 'layers of insight', butalso that there is much potential in the combination of contextualinformation in those layers with the detailed codification system.
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