Interviewing is a key method of acquiring and producing information in many professions. Usually, talk is transformed into text, and turns at talk are lifted out of their interactional contexts to be written down for one purpose or another. Depending on the domain, the way turns at talk are used in written genres can vary significantly.
In our presentation, we are going to propose a systematic and practice-oriented model that describes the recontextualization of interview-produced talk in professional writing. Professional writing encompasses the verbal work of professional writers (e.g., journalists, researchers, book authors) as well as that of people using writing in their profession (e.g. nurses, doctors, police officers, job recruiters, asylum officers).
The model addresses the complex relationship between what is produced during an interactional event and what remains once reported in a written text. It aims to give keys to understand how material coming from interviews is reported in written texts (forms and practices of reporting) and why it is used that way (norms and ideals of reporting). Importantly, modeling the recontextualization of talk in professional writing should not only help practitioners in their everyday work but should reveal issues that might be unnoticed by scholars.
