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Talk is one of the main resources available to qualitative researchers. It offers rich, meaningful data that can provide real insights and new perspectives. But once you have the data how do you select an appropriate means of analysis? How do you ensure that the approach you adopt is the best for your project and your data? The book will help you choose strategies for qualitative analysis that best suit your research. It walks you through key decisions, provides actionable game plans and highlights the advantages and challenges of the main approaches. It is packed full of real examples designed to showcase the different tools you might use to meet your own objectives. Each section of the book focuses on one popular strategy for analyzing talk-based data: • Narrative Analysis • Conversation Analysis • Discourse Analysis Taken together these sections will help you to fine-tune the link between your primary research question and your methods; to ensure that your theoretical stance fits with your methods; and to reason through your analysis in a way that will be recognizable to the intellectual communities of narrative, conversation, or discourse analysts. This book is both starting point and map for any social scientist looking to strategically and purposefully analyse talk data.
The Interview in Discourse Analysis
The Interview in Discourse Analysis
Like other talk in the preceding chapters, discourse analysts understand the interview to instantiate discourses, meaning that discourses are articulated through or presented in the interview, talk that is understood to be socially constituted. Thus, in contrast to realist NA, in which tests of accuracy can be applied to respondents’ talk, in DA, truth is not at issue. DA researchers share this assumption, but recall that they come at it from different paradigms. Critical theorists would argue that talk is constituted by discourse, but is also both shaped by and grounded in material relations. In a Marxist sense, talk may then reflect the false consciousness of people who do not perceive how discourses shape their material relations. For example, ...
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