Interviews in Applied Linguistics

<p>This book is a personal reflection on research interviews. Written as an autobiography it invites the reader to accompany the author on his personal journey of over three decades of research carried out on a range of topics in a range of contexts. It mixes academic genres moving back and forth between life-story telling and more standard academic writing. </p><p>This book has been written with several aims in mind. First it aims to present the author’s perspective on research interviews acquired over time to researchers of all kinds (from novice to experienced). Second while it contains valuable information about the practice of interviewing it is written in such a way that it avoids the kind of dry and overly structured presentation style that one finds in textbook-like publications on the topic. Third and finally this book aims to complement previous publications on interviews (e.g. Cicourel Briggs Mishler Kvale) which have approached the topic from a reflexive sociolinguistic/linguistic anthropological perspective that frames interviews not as information mining expeditions but as communicative events and conversations. </p><p>This unique reflection on research interviews will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in applied linguistics and sociolinguistics and will also be relevant to researchers working in social sciences and humanities disciplines.</p>