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But I guess Paul would have liked them to be longer pauses? :-) On Sep 4, 2018 1:38 PM, "Tom Wengraf" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I just came across this useful text about lived experience - a good > corrective...... > > “The case seems to be as follows: much of our experience is silent > perception, both of body and environment, and much is wordless action in > the environment. Speech can latch onto almost all experience, including > what is silently perceived and wordlessly acted, creating a vast domain of > verbalised experience. Much of speaking is also carried on for its own > sake, with little connection with other experience. And it is never > certain, in a concrete situation and in the act of speaking, [an interview, > e.g. TW] how much is using words as part of other experience and how much > is just the experience of using words, where verbalised experience leaves > off and just verbalising begins. So we live in a kind of doubled world, a > world of experiences with words attached and the world made of experienced > words… Such a situation, of living in the double world, is rife with > delusion… Ideas and sentences crowd out experience… A good maxim is to try > out and practice not-speaking, in order to have a non-verbalised world > [moment, TW] to check against the verba lworld > (Paul Goodman > 1973 *Speaking and language: in defence of poetry*:70, 81,77). > > > *My comment: *The 'pauses' enjoined by BNIM methodology at key points > allow both interview partners (and later interpretation partners) a > ‘moment to pause’ to ‘check and think' extra-verbally in this way. > ------------------------------ > > Best wishes > > Tom > > -- > If interested in BNIM,the Biographical-Narrative Interpretive Method > (BNIM) approach to qualitative research interviewing, the following is > relevant....... > > The next (46th) BNIM 5-day intensive course will probably run London at > /end of January/beginning of Februaryy/ 2019. Please let me know if you > might be interested, and to get more precise information (around September > 2018). > A lot of material about BNIM is available from my page at RESEARCHGATE. > This now includes the *Quick Outline Sketch, *the *Short Guide, *and the *Detailed > Manuals, and the BNIM Bibliography. * > Also several articles and papers. > Do feel free to consult and use the RESEARCHGATE facility. > > Quite separately, I would be very pleased to receive and respond to any > comments or questions that you may have about those materials or more > generally about BNIM. > ######################################################################## > To unsubscribe from the BIOGRAPHIC-NARRATIVE-BNIM list, click the following > link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1= > BIOGRAPHIC-NARRATIVE-BNIM&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the BIOGRAPHIC-NARRATIVE-BNIM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=BIOGRAPHIC-NARRATIVE-BNIM&A=1