Qual - Discourse analysis

Question 1

Assumptions of discourse analysis

Answer 1

• social life is made up of talk and text
• talk does things - it is a form of action
• talk constructs reality rather than just representing it

Question 2

Aims of discourse analysis

Answer 2

understand how lang works to construct versions of reality

- provide new insights by questioning dominant ideas

Question 3

Approaches to Discourse analysis

Answer 3

• looks at talk and text in local context of use
• considers wider social and historical context
• chunks up talk to see how discourses structure meaning

Question 4

Discourse analysis uses ……. analysis

Answer 4

conversation analysis - ethnomethodology foucs

Question 5

Ethnomethodology

Answer 5

study of the method people use to interpret and produce social interaction

Question 6

3 analytic concepts used in discursive psychology

Answer 6

interpretive repertories
ideological dilemmas
subject position

Question 7

Discursive psychology uses -

Answer 7

Due to the overlaps (at times) with conversation analysis, the level of transcription required is more detailed. Therefore naturalised transcription is preferred.