The 3rd Tampere Conference on Narrative
GENRES WITHIN GENRES
Genres within genres
- task for the interviewer is to find out how to signal (rather than tell)
the informant that the only thing we really are looking for are those long
uninterrupted sequences of speech
- life story narratives were only one way of getting there
- result: linguistic interviews are a mix of different topics, different
ways of dealing with those topics, and quite probably, of different
(sub)genres