ABSTRACT
In chapter 3, we examined conversations, specifically interviews, from the perspective of the EC. We showed how contextual factors can be seen as analytical units that when systematically incorporated into research investigations, reveal many of the differences between the SLX research interview and the research interview in dementia. Although EC is a useful starting point when undertaking DA, it does not seek to examine context from the microlevel dynamics of the interactional moves. To further examine our data and explore the “meanings” that interlocutors exchange, understand, or do not understand within their interactions, we intend to refocus the “lens” of our analytical “camera” and look at speaker roles and ends from the perspective of interactional sociolinguistics (IS).
