Sociolinguistic interview is often used as a broad term for any face-to-face interaction that is recorded for use as sociolinguistic data. During the pandemic all forms of face-to-face interactions have changed their character.

For this topic we will discuss how to adapt to this new reality, specifically focussing on conducting face-to-face interviews through online or other technologies that keep the interview and interviewee a safe distance apart.

This includes the practical aspect of setting up, recording, and keeping confidential interviewers using services like Skype, Zoom, FaceTime, etc. We will also discuss the pragmatic and discursive differences between interviewing someone in a naturalistic vs. a computer-mediated setting.