A Study of Individual Differences and of Interaction in the Behaviour of Some Aspects of Language in Interviews

Abstract

Since the interviewing process, or the process of two people talking to each other is an extremely complex phenomenon, it seemed advisable to begin its analysis at the elementary and quantitative level, by first of all measuring the duration both of periods of continuous speech, and of the pauses and then after investigating their various relations and rhythmic alternation, to work up through grammatical analysis to the more complex phenomena.