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Discourse Analysis in Ethnographic Research - Volume 11 - Deborah Poole.

Drawing on the perspectives of ethnography and discourse analysis, this paper first gives an overview of the emerging body of research bringing together the epistemologies and the methods of these two perspectives. It then presents a novel analytical framework for computer-assisted ethnographic discourse analysis.

With ethnographic data, MEDA allows for identification of multiple levels of analysis, such as tracing the location of knowledge and power in discourse.

Beginning with brief definitions of discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and ethnography, the chapter then illustrates published examples of research combining a close analysis of.

ETHNOGRAPHY AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: DILEMMAS IN REPRESENTING THE VOICES OF CHILDREN Pam Alldred The final version of this chapter is in J. Ribbens and R. Edwards (eds) Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research: Public Knowledge and Private Lives, London: Sage. Particular ethical and political dilemmas arise in representing the lives of people.

Understanding is indeed the spontaneous mode of dealing with intellectual discourse since texts are written to convey a message to be understood by the readers. Accordingly, in the social sciences and humanities, many interpretive methodologies have emerged that have recourse to understanding for example in ethnographic and historical research.

Discourse is a broadly used and abstract term that is used to refer to a range of topics in various disciplines. For the sake of this discussion, discourse analysis is used to describe a number of approaches to analyzing written and spoken language use beyond the technical pieces of language, such as words and sentences.

Ethnographic and Discourse Analysis research can bring to light the working practices and implicit perceptions used by software developers which directly influence their application of the concept of quality to the process of writing software.

Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Politics in Media. CDA is “a type of discourse analysis research that primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance, and inequality are enacted, reproduced, and resisted by text and talk in social and political contexts” (van Dijk, 2004, p. 352).

Ethnographic content analysis (ECA) is briefly contrasted with conventional modes of quantitative content analysis (QCA) to illustrate the usefulness of constant comparison for discovering emergent patterns, emphases, and themes in an analysis of TV news coverage of the Iranian hostage situation and news coverage of fear and terrorism.

The first view of discourse emerged as part of the broad interactional turn which took place as new fields of social science, such as conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics and micro-ethnography were being established (see Short Course on Linguistic Ethnography). Within this tradition of work, context was not taken as given but as being constituted in and through everyday.