Description
Choose the right methodological tools to answer your research question and know how to use them with this anthology of textual analysis approaches.
Each chapter provides not only relevant theoretical background behind each methodology, but also its advantages and challenges, its potential applications, and its relationship to studying social phenomenon. Through step-by-step worked examples of real-world data, you get an in-depth window into each method in action and learn how to apply the same techniques successfully and confidently in your own research.
Methods include:
• Content analysis
• Narrative analysis
• Critical discourse studies
• Multimodal discourse analysis
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Analysing Text and Discourse in the Social Sciences
Chapter 2: Content Analysis
Chapter 3: Analysis of Ideas and Ideological Thought
Chapter 4: Conceptual History
Chapter 5: Narrative Analysis
Chapter 6: Three Poststructural Approaches to Discourse Analysis
Chapter 7: Critical Discourse Studies
Chapter 8: Multimodal Discourse Analysis
