The interviewer's self-disclosure in L2 research interviews : a conversational analytic study on empathic reformulation and discursive identity work embedded in the interviewer's self-revealing talk
This PhD study applies conversation analysis (CA) to the examination of L2 research interview interaction. More specifically, it provides a fine detailed investigation of the interviewer's self-disclosure in qualitative interviews with L2 immigrants, thereby shedding light on the main research question: ~How does the interviewer's self-disclosure play a part in the interview process?~ This thesis particularly focuses on presenting and discussing how the interviewer's self-disclosure turns are formulated and how such formulation reveals the interviewer's orientation to the interviewees' prior talk. Self-disclosure here denotes the interactional moments when the interviewer reveals personal information about herself (e.g. her experiences and opinions in relation to the ongoing talk), although such tellings were not prompted or requested by the interviewees. Thousands of research literature on self-disclosure has been published in the field of social psychology for several decades; however, their approach to, analyses of the topic remained rather rudimentary and uncritical. That is, self-disclosure was readily operationalised as a mere variable (i.e. independent variable or dependent variable) or a pre-given
Cho, Yoonjoo
The interviewer's self-disclosure in L2 research interviews : a conversational analytic study on empathic reformulation and discursive identity work embedded in the interviewer's self-revealing talk. This PhD study applies conversation analysis (CA) to the examination of L2 research interview interaction. More specifically, it provides a fine detailed investigation of the interviewer's self-disclosure in qualitative interviews with L2 immigrants, thereby shedding light on the main research question: ~How does the interviewer's self-disclosure play a part in the interview process?~ This thesis particularly focuses on presenting and discussing how the interviewer's self-disclosure turns are formulated and how such formulation reveals the interviewer's orientation to the interviewees' prior talk. Self-disclosure here denotes the interactional moments when the interviewer reveals personal information about herself (e.g. her experiences and opinions in relation to the ongoing talk), although such tellings were not prompted or requested by the interviewees. Thousands of research literature on self-disclosure has been published in the field of social psychology for several decades; however, their approach to, analyses of the topic remained rather rudimentary and uncritical. That is, self-disclosure was readily operationalised as a mere variable (i.e. independent variable or dependent variable) or a pre-given
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