Elite Oral History Discourse - A Study of Cooperation and Coherence

Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, Eva M. McMahan describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context.

About the author

Eva M. McMahan is a professor emeritus of communication studies at James Madison University. She is the coeditor of Interactive Oral History Interviewing.Ronald J. Grele is the former director of the Columbia University Oral History Research Office. He is the author of Envelopes of Sound: The Art of Oral History and editor of Subjectivity and Multiculturalism in Oral History.

Summary

Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, Eva M. McMahan describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context.

Product details

• Authors: Eva M McMahan, Eva M. McMahan, Eva M./ Grele McMahan
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9780817358549
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5854-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Studies in Rhetoric/Communication; Studies in Rhetoric and Commun; Studies in Rhetoric and Communication; Studies Rhetoric & Communicati
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries