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Methods
– Notational symbols
– We:ll - prolonged sound
– .hh - intake of breath
– (0.8) - silence for 0.8 seconds
– Turn-taking
– Adjacency pairs
– question and answer
– invitation and response
Some basic tools of CA: 2
– Preference organization
– one response preferred to the other (e.g. acceptance/refusal)
– dispreferred response has to be justified
– Accounts
– justifies action by reference to common values
– Repair mechanisms
– response to unexpected speech acts
– restores interaction to normal appearances
What is discourse analysis?
– Anti-realist epistemology
– Constructionist ontology
– What are people trying to accomplish when they use particular
discourses?
Three basic discourse-analytic questions
Four themes in discourse
analysis
Discourse is a topic, not just a resource
Language is constructive
Discourse is a form of action
Rhetorically organized
Establishing one version of the world in the face of
competing versions
Gill (2000)
Uncovering interpretative repertoires
– General strategies:
– analytic induction
– grounded theory
– Coding:
– steps
– considerations
– problems
Analytic induction
– Theory is derived from the data, which are systematically gathered and analysed
– Iterative process
– repetitive interplay between data collection and analysis / theory building
– Developments in grounded theory
– Straussian model more prescriptive
– term used loosely by researchers today
– Distinction between tools and outcomes
Tools of grounded theory
– Theoretical sampling
– Coding
– begins during initial stages of research
– important first step in generating theory
– progressive
– Theoretical saturation
– Constant comparison (between concepts/indicators)
Outcomes of grounded theory