Download or read book Elite Oral History Discourse written by Eva M. McMahan and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past thirty years, oral history has found increasing favor among social scientists and humanists, with scholars “rediscovering” the oral interview as a valuable method for obtaining information about the daily realities and historical consciousness of people, their histories, and their culture. One primary issue is the question of how the communicative performances of the interviewer and narrator jointly influence the interview. Using methods of conversation/discourse analysis, the author describes the collaborative processes that enable interviewers and narrators to interact successfully in the interview context.