This workshop provides a comprehensive overview of how sociolinguistic perspectives can deepen and enrich the analysis of interview data. Anchored in the view that interviews are not merely neutral tools for data collection but dynamic sites of social interaction, the session advances an understanding of the interview as a form of social practice. Drawing on Talmy’s (2010) notion of interviews as a form of “collaborative achievement”, the workshop demonstrates how attending to the co-constructed nature of interviews can open up new interpretive possibilities across various domains of educational and social scientific research. Participants will be introduced to sociolinguistic approaches that focus on metacommunicative dimensions—“statements that report, describe, interpret, and evaluate communicative acts and processes” (Briggs, 1986: 2)—to uncover both the content (the “whats”) and the interactional dynamics (the “hows”) of knowledge production. By exploring these, the workshop aims to equip researchers with analytical tools for critically engaging with interviews not only as sources of data but also as socially situated performances.