Overview
"Over the past thirty years, oral history has found increasing favor among social scientists and humanists, with scholars ""rediscovering"" the oral interview as a valuable method for obtaining information about the daily realities and historical consciousness of people, their histories, and their culture. One primary issue is the question of how the communicative performances of the interviewer and narrator jointly influence the interview. Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, the author describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context."
Full Product Details
Author: Eva M. McMahan
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Imprint: The University of Alabama Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.90cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.476kg
ISBN: 9780817304379
ISBN 10: 0817304371
Pages: 167
Publication Date: 30 July 1989
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<p> McMahan does a fine job of exploring for oral history the implications of both hermeneutic philosophy and communications/discourse theory. Moreover, McMahan demonstrates powerfully that the issues engaged in such theories and research are not merely relevant, but inescapably fundamental to the root documents and processes of oral history. A fascinating book. - Michael Frisch, SUNY-Buffalo, Editor, The Oral History Review
McMahan does a fine job of exploring for oral history the implications of both hermeneutic philosophy and communications/discourse theory. Moreover, McMahan demonstrates powerfully that the issues engaged in such theories and research are not merely relevant, but inescapably fundamental to the root documents and processes of oral history. A fascinating book. - Michael Frisch, SUNY-Buffalo, Editor, The Oral History Review
McMahan does a fine job of exploring for oral history the implications of both hermeneutic philosophy and communications/discourse theory. Moreover, McMahan demonstrates powerfully that the issues engaged in such theories and research are not merely relevant, but inescapably fundamental to the root documents and processes of oral history. A fascinating book. -- Michael Frisch, SUNY-Buffalo, Editor, The Oral History Review
Author Information
Eva M. McMahan is Associate Professor of Speech Communication at The University of Alabama. Ronald J. Greele is Director, Oral History Research Office, Columbia University.
