Talk is one of the main resources available to qualitative researchers. It offers rich, meaningful data that can provide real insights and new perspectives. But once you have the data how do you select an appropriate means of analysis? How do you ensure that the approach you adopt is the best for your project and your data?
The book will help you choose strategies for qualitative analysis that best suit your research. It walks you through key decisions, provides actionable game plans and highlights the advantages and challenges of the main approaches. It is packed full of real examples designed to showcase the different tools you might use to meet your own objectives.
Each section of the book focuses on one popular strategy for analyzing talk-based data:
Narrative Analysis
Conversation Analysis
Discourse Analysis
Taken together these sections will help you to fine-tune the link between your primary research question and your methods; to ensure that your theoretical stance fits with your methods; and to reason through your analysis in a way that will be recognizable to the intellectual communities of narrative, conversation, or discourse analysts.
This book is both starting point and map for any social scientist looking to strategically and purposefully analyse talk data.
Author(s): Katherine Bischoping; Amber Gazso
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Year: 2015
Language: English
Commentary: Narrative, Conversation and Discourse Strategies in Social Sciences
Pages: 238
Tags: Narrative, Conversation and Discourse Strategies in Social Sciences
About the Authors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Why You Should Read This Book
Why Talk Data? Why These Three Strategies?
Our Approach
Part I ANALYZING NARRATIVES
2 Broad Strokes Approaches to Narrative Analysis
Knowing the Past through Oral History
Knowing the Present through Oral History
Studying the Processes of the Life Course
Studying the Self as Essence or as Narrative Process
Chapter Summary
3 Fine-grained Analyses of Meaning
Analyzing Emplotment, Up Close
Discerning the Language of Agency
Observing Uses of Imagery and Figurative Language
Listening to the Sounds of Stories
Chapter Summary
4 The Interview in Narrative Analysis
Being Reflexive about Standpoint and Representation
Being Reflexive about Embodiment
Being Reflexive about Notions of a ‘Good’ Story
Chapter Summary
Part II Analyzing Talk-In-Interaction
5 The Basics of Conversation Analysis
The Founding Insight of Conversation Analysis
Understanding the Conversation Analysis Paradigm
Analyzing the Mechanisms of Everyday Talk
Chapter Summary
6 Conversation Analysis Approaches to Social Categories
Introducing Membership Categorization Analysis
CA and Categories: Debating the Alternatives
Chapter Summary
7 Institutional Talk-in-interaction
Learning the Basics of Institutional Talk-in-interaction
Analyzing How Institutional Work Gets Done in Stages
Studying Turn-taking within Institutions
Analyzing Other Mechanisms of Institutional Talk
Chapter Summary
8 The Interview in Conversation Analysis
Pinning Down the Qualitative Research Interview
Asking What Talk about Categories Accomplishes
Studying Focus Groups through a CA Lens
Chapter Summary
Part III Analyzing Discourse
9 Foucauldian Discourse Analysis
Introducing Foucault
Unpacking Power, Knowledge, and the Subject
Doing Foucauldian DA
Chapter Summary
10 Critical Discourse Analysis
Understanding the Principles of CDA
Doing CDA
Chapter Summary
11 Garden-variety Discourse Analysis
Understanding the Discourse–Society Dialectic
Unraveling Identities and Subjectivities
Analyzing Power and Discourse
Working with Time
Chapter Summary
12 The Interview in Discourse Analysis
Being Reflexive about Power in DA
Being Reflexive about Performativity and Performance
Being Reflexive about Positioning
Chapter Summary
13 Conclusion
Now That You’ve Read This Book
What You’ve Learned about Talk
Remember Those Scenarios?
Why You Should Close This Book
References
Index
