Description
This book is an extremely concrete and practical A-Z guide about how to design, undertake and communicate the results of a mixed methods approach to critical discourse analysis (MMCDA) in the social sciences, addressing an important gap in the existing social sciences methodological literature. Focusing on research related to political studies and international relations, and organized around detailed discussions of the processes used, lessons learned, and research outcomes of 3 award-winning MMCDA research projects in a number of different subfields in political science and international relations (as well as discussions about the potential relevance of and considerations around the use of AI in MMCDA research), the goal of this book is to give readers everything they require to design, conduct, and communicate an MMCDA research project on their own topics of investigation.
Chapter 1: Introduction: How to Use this Book.- PART I: Why Great Powers go to War: A Deep Dive into Designing, Conducting and Communicating MMCDA Research.- Chapter 2: Identifying and Confirming Research Questions, Methods, and Datasets.- Chapter 3: Building the Analytic Toolkit: Constructing the Codebook.- Chapter 4: Coding the Dataset.- Chapter 5: Conducting the Macro-Analysis, Identifying the Key Findings, Telling the Overall Story.- PART II: Additional Lessons for MMCDA Research.- Chapter 6: Using MMCDA to Compare Anti-Abortion Discourse in Canada and the United States.- Chapter 7: Using MMCDA to Measure Infotainment in Canadian Political News Coverage.- PART III: The Future of MMCDA?.- PART III: The Future of M8. Concluding Reflections: AI and the Future of MMCDA 93MCDA?.
Dr. Paul Saurette is a full professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, where he teaches and researches a wide variety of topics including MMCDA, ideology, rhetoric, political communication, conservative movements, the anti-abortion movement, international relations, public law, political ethics, and political philosophy more generally.
Dr. Matthieu Grandpierron is an associate professor of international relations and head of the political science department at ICES, France, where he teaches and researches on a wide variety of topics in international relations and strategic studies.
Robert Marinov is a Ph.D. candid
