Ethnography


Text Analysis

Narrative

(Discourse analysis and Narrative. In Schiffrin (p. 635).

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Guidelines for Developing Plausible and Thrustworthy Interpretations

Rogers, Rebecca (2003). A Critical Discourse Analysis of Family Literacy Practices: Power In and Out of Print. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
Chapter 2 (Methodology) has a specific section labeled 'Trust in Language Claims' that deals with issues of validity or credibility. She focuses on Gee's concept of 'coverage' in addition to other credibility measures such as 'checks and balances', 'audit trails' and triangulation. She also addresses matters of consistency or reliability.
Appendix H (Role of the Researcher) addresses the issue of the researcher and his/her analyisis as necessarily linked to ontological and epistemological assumptions. As such the researcher and his/her analysis is always inscribed within certain ways of being, and knowing. A self-reflexive lens that takes into account this is necessary in any interpretation.

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Annotated Examples (Part 2 Schiffrin)

Discourse Analysis Means Doing Analysis: A Critique of Six Analytic Shortcomings
Antaki, C., Billig, M., Edwards, D., Potter, J., 2003
Abstract
A number of ways of treating talk and textual data are identified which fall short of discourse analysis. They are: (1) under-analysis through summary; (2) under-analysis through taking sides; (3) under-analysis through over-quotation or through isolated quotation; (4) the circular identification of discourses and mental constructs; (5) false survey; and (6) analysis that consists in simply spotting features. We show, by applying each of these to an extract from a recorded interview, that none of them actually analyse the data. We hope that illustrating shortcomings in this way will encourage further development of rigorous discourse analysis in social psychology. | Full Text |
Citation Details: Antaki, C., Billig, M., Edwards, D., Potter, J., 2003, "Discourse Analysis Means Doing Analysis: A Critique Of Six Analytic Shortcomings", Discourse Analysis Online, vol.1, no.1 [http://www.shu.ac.uk/daol/previous/v1/n1/index.htm]

Annotated Journal Articles Using DA with Different kinds of Studies
(Discourse analysis and Narrative. In Schiffrin (p. 635).

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