Blog 13

Christopher Caruso

Blog #13

For my short analysis project, due to the fact that my main method of gathering data for my case study will be in the form of personal interviews, I feel that it would be best if I did an analysis on one of the interviews from the numerous data sheets.  By analyzing the interviews from Data Set 5, I will not only gain a firmer grasp on how to give a proper interview and choose my words and prompts wisely,but I will also be able to better read between the lines of my interviewee's answers, language, and word choice.  Specifically, the interviews that I intend to analyze are the two excerpts from the Adult Learner & Technology data sheet. Some of the questions or issues that I may bring up during my analysis include (but are not limited to):

Any correlations in the choice of words spoken by the interviewer/interviewee

Any significance in the tense in which the interviewee is speaking

Interviewer's/Interviewee's confidence in the subject matter being spoken

Difference in the way the interviewer/interviewee speaks between excerpt 1 and excerpt 2

Frequency in the amount of filler sounds (such as ah or um)

When it comes to relating the subject material back to Gee, a large portion of Gee's material will be coming from chapter five of his book, and will touch up on topics such as form-function correlations, critical discourse analysis, situated meaning, etc.