Dialogue in Focus Groups - Exploring Socially Shared Knowledge - Ivana Markova
Focus groups as communicative activity types
Dialogue in Focus Groups - Exploring Socially Shared Knowledge - Ivana Markova
Ivana Markova [+]
University of Stirling
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I was born in Czechoslovakia and came to the UK in 1967 as a post-doctoral visitor to the Psychological Laboratory, University of Cambridge; then I was a research fellow at the Industrial Research Training Unit of the University of London. In 1970 I moved to the University of Stirling. I have been a visiting professor at various universities in the UK and abroad. Currently I am a visiting professor at the Institute of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and an international fellow of the Open Society Institute at the University of Moldova.
Per Linell [+]
University of Gothenburg
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Per Linell participates in the LINT program (Learning, interactive technologies and the development of narrative knowing and remembering), integrated with the LinCS centre. More generally, he is engaged in international cooperations regarding the further development of dialogical theories of language and the mind.
Michele Grossen
Universite de Lausanne
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In this chapter the authors adopted a micro-sociological and social-interactiona perspective, looking at focus groups as communicative activity types, that is, special kinds of multi-party encounters, with specific tasks and framings. In this perspective, focus groups are not just small groups tout court, but socially structured constellations of participants, who adopt different roles with a social distribution of responsibilities, knowledge and participation.