ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses author's conversation in Urbana regarding qualitative communication research. Most qualitative communication researchers at least tend toward an interpretive stance. Even qualitative researchers from a social science orientation tend to have a social constructionist bent in their ontology. The author go back through a narrative and he has created he can add a theoretical conversation which also makes it somewhat fresh. In it the author discusses that he sit in the dark and think of Bud, and of Carolyn Ellis, Stacy Holman Jones, Chris Poulos, and others who mentored him, taught him about qualitative communication research from the interpretive tradition auto ethnography, narrative ethnography, and performance ethnography. He wanted to put out a point of gratitude for the emergence of the journals that embrace qualitative inquiry directly, including the one titled that, but also the most newly emerging one, Qualitative Communication Research.
