The 3rd Tampere Conference on Narrative
INTERVIEWS AS GENRE
Linguistic interviews as a genre
- may be considered a well-established genre (or set of interrelated
genres)
- purpose of the interviews is to extract linguistic data from the
informants
- semantic, pragmatic and discoursal points of view were for a long
time totally neglected
- method: obtain long, uninterrupted sequences of speech by the
informant in any way possible
- no demands on the topic or subject of the discussion