Chapter Summary To conclude this book, we take stock of the state of the field of clean language interviewing (CLI). The field has matured considerably in 20 years and yet is still young and emergent. Through articulating the principles of CLI and exploring its application in many fields of...

Chapter Summary The purpose of this chapter is to enable interviewers to understand how they can elicit interviewee-generated data that are not ‘muddied’ by the researcher. The chapter has three main components. First, we discuss the authorship of data and illustrate how questions may...

Chapter Summary In this chapter we state the aims and scope of the book and its intended audience. The chapter describes clean language, explaining its origins and how it has developed from a psychotherapeutic approach into a practice with an international presence in varied fields of...

Chapter Summary This chapter describes the work-life balance project, which was the first to investigate the potential of clean language as an academic research interview methodology ( Lawley, Meyer, Meese, Sullivan, & Tosey, 2010 ). It resulted in the publication of an article in the British...

Chapter Summary This chapter illustrates the elicitation of metaphor using clean language interviewing (CLI) from a study with a population of 30 business leaders to find out what they could learn through articulating and exploring their metaphors about leadership. This responded to claims in...

Chapter Summary Modelling is a research methodology that has received little academic attention since it began to be formulated in the 1970s. On the spectrum of clean language interviewing (CLI) applications described in Chapter 1, the most sophisticated is modelling, and especially modelling...