INTER-Encyclopedia: Narrative Interview

The article describes the methodology and technique for conducting a narrative interview, as well as its analysis. The narrative interview method is presented from the perspective of a broader narrative approach based on communicative forms of storytelling. In the range of concepts of the narrative approach, the author considers the event, their selection, sequence, segmentation, linearization, coherence, the instance of the narrator, the double time perspective of the narrating I and the narrated I. The methodology of narrative interviewing by F. Schutze is presented, as well as his concept of analyzing the transcript of a narrative interview. G. Rosenthal's approach to the analysis of narrative interviews, as well as the basic principles of thematic or meaningful analysis of narratives are described.