Elite Oral History Discourse

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Elite Oral History Discourse is written by Eva M. McMahan and published by University of Alabama Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0817358544 (ISBN 10) and 9780817358549 (ISBN 13).

Over the past thirty years, oral history has found increasing favor among social scientists and humanists, with scholars “rediscovering” the oral interview as a valuable method for obtaining information about the daily realities and historical consciousness of people, their histories, and their culture. One primary issue is the question of how the communicative performances of the interviewer and narrator jointly influence the interview. Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, the author describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context.