![]() ![]() But how do you make sure that you have covered all your bases and that you will later be able to make a good case for yourself and your work? Here are ten work steps that will help you conduct a systematic and professional discourse analysis.īefore you start chiselling away at your source material, jot down where the material comes from and how it fits into the big picture. So you have formulated a research question, have collected source material, and are now ready to roll up your sleeves and dig into your sources. Getting technical: discourse analysis in ten steps At the end of this post, you will also find a few comments on the limitations of this toolbox plus a list of literature that you can turn to if you want to learn more. However, if you are conducting a specific research project, I would recommend adapting this toolbox to your own needs and tailoring it to fit your concerns. You can go through the whole list of work-steps and tick each item off in turn, which is a good way to practice these methods. The idea of a discourse toolbox comes from Siegfried Jäger, but I have expanded his approach based on my own experience and the works of other discourse analysts such as Paul Chilton (2004) and Norman Fairclough (1994). ![]() In this post, I offer a handy set of tools for doing a text-based, qualitative discourse analysis. In other posts, I have provided a quick video introduction to the topic, and have discussed the ideas behind discourse theory, the main questions that students and researchers will likely ask as they set up their discourse analysis project, and the things that are worth keeping in mind when working with East Asian language sources. Discourse analysis is a useful tool for studying the political meanings that inform written and spoken text.
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