Abstract
This review applies a critical linguistic anthropological perspective to classic and current scholarly literature on interviewing, understood as a cluster of communicative practices used to produce and circulate various types of authoritative and consequential knowledge about groups and individuals. I begin by treating interviews as multifunctional, ideologically mediated communicative events. I then discuss the multiplicity, indeterminacy, and intertextuality in people's practices and understandings of interviewing as a communicative genre. Interviews are fundamentally intertextual, as they resemble, co-occur with, precede, and follow other communicative events.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 499-520 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Annual Review of Anthropology |
| Volume | 43 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 1 2014 |
Keywords
- intertextuality
- interviewing
- language ideology
- methodology
- speech genres
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Anthropology
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)