Analysis of interview moves
Here's my analysis of the text in the handout. The opening, check/reflect and structuring moves are straightforward, but you may have disagreed with the follow-up and probe moves. I chose the former because the turn asks for an extension of information previously given, whereas the probe move introduces a new angle. However, there would be nothing wrong in labelling 18/19 a follow-up. (25/26, by the way, is another example of a check/reflect.)
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01 IR: I wonder if you could just talk me through what you 02 do when you go into the office in the morning, your routine. 03 IE: Er my usual routine is that I check the answerphone 04 first of all 05 IR: Uhuh 06 IE: to see if any messages have been left on that … open the 07 filing cabinets and 08 IR: You unlock the filing cabinets 09 IE: I unlock the filing cabinets 10 IR: Right 11 IE: Yeah. Then I open up the post that’s arrived at our end 12 IR: You say ‘your end’. Was that- How many ends, how many 13 destinations 14 IE: By that I mean that… [Moves on to interactions while 15 taking the post round] …Might have a little chat or I 16 might, if they look as though they’re really kind of stuck 17 into something straight away then I’ll just kind of 18 IR: When you say you’ll have a little chat, I mean, you’ll 19 institute that will you, or 20 IE: Er. er, it depends really. Sometimes [Exchanges on nature 21 of talk continue] …if there’s maybe something particular 22 that I want to talk about I will- I will let them know that 23 IR: Uhuh 24 IE: and ask when it will be convenient for me to see them. 25 IR: Right. So effectively you’re signalling that things are 26 important but they’re picking the time for the talk. 27 IE: Yeah, that’s it exactly. Yeah and if… 28 [Exchanges on subject of talk continue.] 29 IR: If we could go back a bit and talk a bit more about the 30 relationship between where you are and the other section.
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Opening
Check/Reflect
Follow-up
Probe
Structuring |