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Some hours later.I'm pleased to discover that in my 2001 Qualitative Research Interviewing I have a number of sections where I look at 'non-verbal communication' in interviews, as well as 'paralinguistics'. For those who have a copy, these might be worth looking at. The whole question of 'body communication' has moved on and developed since then, but I don't know enough to say anything useful.Since human beings are herd animals, unless we shut them down – which as a verbal academics we are likely to do - we get a lot of information as an embodied person just by being in a room with a lot of other embodied people - provided we let ourselves access our own interoception. Think of yourself opening the door and going into a room of silent people: the chances are that you will get a sense (even if you don't know how) of what sort of silence it is, what sort of intersubjective field is going on even though there are no words to indicate it.If you put 'types of silence' (I put in 'six types of silence') into your net browser, there is a lot of material there ( obviously of very varied quality).Finally, psychoanalyst Betty Joseph put forward a concept of the 'total situation transference' which might be worth looking at.Best wishes to all, and let's all detect our own silences and the unsaid of the said.Tom##############################I take it that implies we need to focus on developing telepathic abilities, conducting silent interviews, and writing non-verbal ethnographies. How did I not think of that before!Artour MitskiJapanese Studies/Social AnthropologyDoctoral ResearcherSchool of Oriental and African StudiesUniversity of London10Thornhaugh Street
London WC1H 0XGロンドン大学東洋アフリカ学院日本研究・社会人類学博士研究生ミツキ・アーサーOn 4 September 2018 at 15:32, Rakesh Biswas <[log in to unmask]> wrote: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
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