Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Research Methodologies

When looking at popular research methodologies I would have to say that Conversation Analysis was the most interesting to me. It has the researcher describing the content, structure, and function of everyday spoken interaction. I think that this would be a difficult task because people’s interactions are widely misconstrued and this is widely constructed to try and figure out exactly what your conversations are meaning. A research questions I would ask would have to be something like, How does seeing different relationships in conversation change the analysis for you during your research? I would answer the question using performance research, this way it would open the person up. If people know they are being analyzed they are most likely not going to be themselves and that would through off your whole analysis. A good way to approach it would be if you were in the person you are researching own environment, because you know that they would be at ease.

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