Communication · Executive Insight Brief · 284
The conversation can change purpose
Distinguish social, research-topic, collaborative, and therapeutic yarns so relational conversation does not become a disguised conventional interview.
Premise
Yarning changes what researchers should count as rigor. In Indigenous research, relationship is not preliminary small talk designed to improve extraction; it is part of the method. Bessarab and Ng’andu’s 2010 formulation distinguishes four yarn types that show when communicative purpose has changed. An open-ended conversation is not automatically yarning, and using the label without relational, cultural, governance, and analytic obligations can leave the underlying research architecture unchanged.
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- FamilyTool
- CategoryResearch & Analysis Methods
- DomainAcross Cultures
What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Research & Analysis Methods
Establishes procedures for collecting, coding, comparing or interpreting information for inquiry or analysis. Its contribution is a defensible route from observations or materials to an account, finding or interpretation.
- KnowledgeYarning