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.