ABSTRACT
Interviews and researcher-facilitated group discussions stimulate the production of a distinctive type of data: “dialogical data” Dialogical data is generated through dialogues between researcher and researched that are rarely naturalistic. Subjects will often talk during interviews in ways they seldom talk in everyday life. Why? Because very often people are not listened to as intently as the researcher listens to them, taken as seriously as the researcher takes them, and supported in the exploration of their feelings and life as much as a skilled researcher will support them.
