訪談是教育與社會科學的質性研究相當重要的研究方法。相對於行為主義的刺激－反應訪談模式，詮釋取向的觀點認為訪談是一個話語的形式，由問－答形成、組織而來，是訪談者與受訪者共同建構的結果。訪談紀錄是研究者對此一結果的再現。研究者如何再現此一結果，如何運用於分析與詮釋的過程，揭示了研究者對話語與意義的關聯之理論預設與前提。上述觀點涉及1.訪談的性質與任務；2.訪談紀錄的特性和分析與詮釋的方式；3.不同理論預設的信度與效度等問題，本文嘗試從哲學詮釋學的觀點對這些問題的相關論旨進行比較闡釋，並以個人在原住民排灣族的異文化訪談經驗來回應上述的議題。

This paper deals with some traits of research interview from philosophical hermeneutics’ point of view. I discuss 1. The essence and goal of research interview; 2. The record of an interview and its relationship to analysis and interpretation; 3. Issues of reliability and validity. Viewing an interview as a joint product of interviewees and interviewers, the record of an interview that a researcher makes and then uses for analysis and interpretation can be regarded as a representation of that talk. How one makes that representation and the analytical procedures one applies to it reveals one’s theoretical assumptions and presuppositions about the relationship between discourse and meaning.