In this study, Greimas’s work on narrative structure is used to improve a specific practice: the research interview. In the social sciences, narrative interviewing often consists of collecting data from which a narrative is then constructed through analysis afterwards. In the interview method presented here, the interviewer instead prompts the interviewee to construct a narrative. We introduce the method, contextualize it by comparing it to previous and contemporary interview methods, and illustrate it with a small, sociolinguistic study: students (n = 12) from a humanities faculty and a science and engineering faculty at a Dutch university were interviewed about experiences with the use of different languages than the language of instruction in an international learning environment. The method allowed for smooth data collection, due to its narratively structured questioning and consequent rich data. Moreover, using narrative structures to guide the interview also facilitated easy analysis and comparison of the stories.

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结构化叙事访谈


在这项研究中，Greimas 在叙事结构方面的工作被用来改进一种特定的实践：研究访谈。在社会科学中，叙述性访谈通常包括收集数据，然后从中通过分析构建叙述。在这里介绍的采访方法中，采访者反而提示受访者构建一个叙述。我们介绍了该方法，通过将其与以前和现代的访谈方法进行比较来将其置于上下文中，并通过一项小型社会语言学研究来说明它：来自荷兰大学人文学院和科学与工程学院的学生 （n = 12） 接受了关于在国际学习环境中使用与教学语言不同的语言的经验的访谈。由于其叙述结构的提问和随之而来的丰富数据，该方法允许顺利收集数据。此外，使用叙述结构来引导采访也有助于对故事进行轻松分析和比较。