The basics of communication research

By L. Baxter, E. Babbie. 2004

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Qualitative research interviews (2014, background): “Empathy and reassurance, both important to therapy, are shown through back-channel cues (e.g., ‘‘mmhm’’), paraphrasing, probing (Egan, 1994; Ferrara, 1994), and developing rapport (MacKinnon et al., 2009)—all skills for conducting QRIs (Baxter & Babbie, 2003; Targum, 2011).”
“You're My Parent but You're Not”: Dialectical Tensions in Stepchildren's Perceptions About Communicating with the Nonresidential Parent (2006, background): “Qualitative/interpretive researchers focus on questions of meaning from the “native’s point of view” rather than soliciting participant responses in researcher-defined terms (Baxter & Babbie, 2004; Bochner, 1985).”
The Presence of Cell Phones in Romantic Partner Face-to-Face Interactions: An Expectancy Violation Theory Approach (2015, methodology): “EVT was then used as a sensitizing framework in the later stages of data analysis to organize data in meaningful ways (Baxter & Babbie, 2004; Lindlof & Taylor, 2011).”
Constructing family: A typology of voluntary kin (2010, background): “The researchers situated the study in the interpretive paradigm, focusing on questions of meaning from the perspective of the actors themselves (Baxter & Babbie, 2004; Denzin & Lincoln, 2005).”