Misunderstandings, communicative expectations and resources in illness narratives: Insights from beyond interview transcripts

Murdoch, Jamie, Salter, Charlotte, Cross, Jane ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7003-1916 and Poland, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0003-6911 (2013) Misunderstandings, communicative expectations and resources in illness narratives: Insights from beyond interview transcripts. Communication and Medicine, 10 (2). pp. 153-163.

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Abstract

Interactional misunderstandings in interviews are often glossed over in analysing narratives, so overlooking important clues about how interactants frame the interview discussion. Such misunderstandings will influence ongoing talk, shaping knowledge researchers produce about participants. We discuss whether interpretations of illness narratives may be enhanced if we analyse misunderstandings in conjunction with other contextually-available data not visible within interview transcripts. Using research interviews with people with asthma, we adopted linguistic ethnographic methods to analyse the manifestation and specific consequences of interactional tensions and misunderstandings between interviewer and interviewee. Misunderstandings can indicate inequalities in communicative expectations and discursive resources available to interactants, which may lead to participants’ talk being inappropriately identified as indicating a particular narrative. Incorporating ethnographic contextual features may make visible pertinent discourses not overtly evident within interviews. This may help theorise interview talk, like health and illness narratives, as manifesting within cycles of discourse that will intersect differently in each interaction.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	context,discourse,illness narratives,linguistic ethnography,misunderstandings,research interviews
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Norwich Medical School Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Rehabilitation Sciences (former - to 2014)
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Dementia & Complexity in Later Life Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Services and Primary Care Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Groups > Health Promotion Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > Research Centres > Population Health
Depositing User:	Pure Connector
Date Deposited:	09 Jun 2014 14:04
Last Modified:	19 Oct 2023 01:17
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/48167
DOI:	10.1558/cam.v10i2.153

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