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Working with Transcripts and Translated Data
2008
Transcribing talk originating from various interactional contexts into a written form is an integral part qualitative research practice. Transcripts are produced for particular analytic purposes and therefore range in detail, from broad verbatim transcripts in more content-oriented analysis to extremely refined and detailed transcriptions on interaction-oriented analysis of naturally occurring data. Learning to master transcription skills, and solving the practical, technical and theoretical considerations and decisions that go into the process of producing good quality transcripts is something that both students, teachers of qualitative methods and researchers within the field equally stru…
Doing change and continuity: age identity and the micro–macro divide
2009
ABSTRACTThis paper is a study of the discursive management of notions of change andcontinuity in interview talk. It presents selected short empirical examples frominterviews with 22 Finnish baby-boomers, and discusses the methodological andtheoretical issues that arise. Following a review of the major approaches to thestudy of age identity, the analytic intersection between qualitative gerontologyand discursive psychology is explored. The analysis identifies how the frequentuse of a ‘provisional continuity device’ enables speakers simultaneously both toacknowledge and to distance themselves from factual notions of physical orpsychological lifespan change. The key methodological argument is t…