Syllabus:

Conducting research in multiple languages: Interviews, translation and academic writing, 7.5 Credits

Swedish name: Att forska på olika språk: intervjuer, översättning och akademiskt skrivande

This syllabus is valid: 2025-01-20 and until further notice

Course code: 1ET085

Credit points: 7.5

Education level: Second cycle

Main Field of Study and progress level: Ethnology: Second cycle, has only first-cycle course/s as entry requirements

Grading scale: Pass with distinction, Pass, Fail

Responsible department: Department of Culture and Media Studies

Established by: Faculty director of studies, Faculty of arts, 2024-09-05

Literature

Valid from: 2025 week 5

Translation decisions in qualitative research: a systematic framework
Abfalter D., Mueller-Seeger J., Raich M.
. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24(4) : 2021 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=cdi_proquest_journals_2559548427&context=PC&vid=46UMEA_INST:UmUB&lang=sv&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Primo%20Central&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Translation%20decisions%20in%20qualitative%20research:%20a%20systematic%20framework&offset=0
Mandatory
Doing interviews
Brinkmann Svend, Kvale Steinar
SAGE, Los Angeles : 2018 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
The SAGE handbook of interview research : the complexity of the craft
Gubrium Jaber F., Holstein James A., Marvasti Amir B., McKinney Karyn D.
Second edition. : Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications : 2012 : 1 online resource (x, 613 pages) :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9781452218403
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Words to think with: An introduction
Law J., Mol A.
The Sociological Review Monographs 2020 Vol 68(2) : 2020 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=cdi_proquest_journals_2386789681&context=PC&vid=46UMEA_INST:UmUB&lang=sv&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Primo%20Central&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Words%20to%20think%20with
Mandatory
"Understanding the Processes of Translation and Transliteration"
Regmi Krishna, Naidoo Jennie, Pilkington Paul
International journal of qualitative methods, Vol.9 (1) : 2010 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Tolgensbakk Ida
"Disclosing the interviewer Ethnopoetics and the researcher's place in transcribed interviews"
Ethnologia Europaea, Vol.50 (2) : 2020 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
"Language differences in qualitative research: is meaning lost in translation?"
van Nes Fenna, Abma Tineke, Jonsson Hans, Deeg Dor
European journal of ageing, Vol.7 (4) : 2010 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Caplan Nigel A.
Grammar choices for graduate and professional writers
Second edition : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press : 2019 : Online (xii, 204 sidor) :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9780472128433
Search the University Library catalogue
Caretta Martina Angela
Situated knowledge in cross-cultural, cross-language research : a collaborative reflexive analysis of researcher, assistant and participant subjectivities
Stockholm universitet : 2014 :
Elektronisk resurs
Riessman Catherine Kohler
Narrative methods for the human sciences
London : SAGE : 2008 : 251 s. :
ISBN: 9780761929987
Search the University Library catalogue
Valid from: 2025 week 4

Translation decisions in qualitative research: a systematic framework
Abfalter D., Mueller-Seeger J., Raich M.
. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 24(4) : 2021 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=cdi_proquest_journals_2559548427&context=PC&vid=46UMEA_INST:UmUB&lang=sv&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Primo%20Central&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Translation%20decisions%20in%20qualitative%20research:%20a%20systematic%20framework&offset=0
Mandatory
Doing interviews
Brinkmann Svend, Kvale Steinar
SAGE, Los Angeles : 2018 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
The SAGE handbook of interview research : the complexity of the craft
Gubrium Jaber F., Holstein James A., Marvasti Amir B., McKinney Karyn D.
Second edition. : Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications : 2012 : 1 online resource (x, 613 pages) :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9781452218403
Mandatory
Search the University Library catalogue
Words to think with: An introduction
Law J., Mol A.
The Sociological Review Monographs 2020 Vol 68(2) : 2020 :
https://search.ub.umu.se/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=cdi_proquest_journals_2386789681&context=PC&vid=46UMEA_INST:UmUB&lang=sv&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Primo%20Central&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Words%20to%20think%20with
Mandatory
"Understanding the Processes of Translation and Transliteration"
Regmi Krishna, Naidoo Jennie, Pilkington Paul
International journal of qualitative methods, Vol.9 (1) : 2010 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Tolgensbakk Ida
"Disclosing the interviewer Ethnopoetics and the researcher's place in transcribed interviews"
Ethnologia Europaea, Vol.50 (2) : 2020 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
"Language differences in qualitative research: is meaning lost in translation?"
van Nes Fenna, Abma Tineke, Jonsson Hans, Deeg Dor
European journal of ageing, Vol.7 (4) : 2010 :
Elektronisk resurs
Mandatory
Caplan Nigel A.
Grammar choices for graduate and professional writers
Second edition : Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press : 2019 : Online (xii, 204 sidor) :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9780472128433
Search the University Library catalogue
Caretta Martina Angela
Situated knowledge in cross-cultural, cross-language research : a collaborative reflexive analysis of researcher, assistant and participant subjectivities
Stockholm universitet : 2014 :
Elektronisk resurs
Riessman Catherine Kohler
Narrative methods for the human sciences
London : SAGE : 2008 : 251 s. :
ISBN: 9780761929987
Search the University Library catalogue

Conducting research in multiple languages: Interviews, translation and academic writing, 7.5 Credits

Literature

Valid from: 2025 week 5

Valid from: 2025 week 4

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