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Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis

Published 1 January 2000
Stefan Titscher, Michaël Meyer, Ruth Wodak, Eva Vetter
Citations1,349

TL;DR

This chapter discusses methods of text analysis used in social- research research, as well as approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis and comparison of methods and theories used in this study.

Abstract

PART ONE: TEXTS AND METHODS On Social-Research Methods of Text Analysis What Is a Text? How to Obtain Material for Analysis An Overview Map of Methods and Theories PART TWO: OVERVIEW OF METHODS OF TEXT ANALYSIS Content Analysis Grounded Theory Ethnographic Methods Two Ethnomethodologically Oriented Methods of Text Analysis Membership Categorization Device Analysis and Conversation Analysis Narrative Semiotics SYMLOG as a Method of Text Analysis Two Approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis Functional Pragmatics Distinction-Theory Text Analysis Objective Hermeneutics PART THREE: OVERVIEW AND COMPARISON Bibliometric Survey The Prominence of Methods of Text Analysis Comparison of Methods of Text Analysis

Keywords

Arts and Humanities