Troubled Conception: Negotiating the Likelihood of Having Children

Autor/in	May, Marian
Titel	Troubled Conception: Negotiating the Likelihood of Having Children
Quelle	In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 30 (2007) 3, S.32 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0155-0640
DOI	10.2104/aral0732
Schlagwörter	Interpersonal Communication; Females; Telephone Surveys; Foreign Countries; Researchers; Longitudinal Studies; Intention; Birth Rate; Population Trends; Discourse Analysis; Interviews; Communication Problems; Communication Research; Research Problems; Transcripts (Written Records); Adults; Questioning Techniques; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interpersonale Kommunikation; Weibliches Geschlecht; Telephone interview; Telefoninterview; Ausland; Researcher; Forscher; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Bevölkerungsprognose; Diskursanalyse; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Kommunikationsbarriere; Kommunikationsforschung; Forschungskritik; Befragungstechnik; Fragetechnik; Australien
Abstract	In the context of low fertility and Australia's ageing population, a national longitudinal telephone survey, "Negotiating the Life Course" (NLC), asks women about their childbearing intentions. This paper uses conversation analysis (CA) to examine interaction between an interviewer and respondents on one NLC question about the likelihood of having children, Question 165. The analysis focuses on excerpts from troubled interviews, making transparent the task of negotiating responses acceptable to the interviewer and shedding light on problems inherent in the question for older women and women for whom prediction is difficult. Analysis shows the trouble to result from lack of congruence in the purposes of the researcher and the respondent: the researcher asks about likelihood, whereas the respondent tells her own story. (Contains 1 figure and 4 endnotes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10