The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data.
In this step-by-step guide to conducting a research study, Linda McMullen describes the innovative ways in which discursive psychology analyzes language at both the micro and macro levels.
Discursive psychologists reconceptualize talk and text as being situated in a social context, rather than thinking of talk as a route to our thoughts. For example, this approach could be used to study how people use arguments for and against the notion of human-induced climate change, or how they criticize each other in face-to-face encounters.
About the Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series: Even for experienced researchers, selecting and correctly applying the right method can be challenging. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations. Each book includes numerous examples to enable readers to quickly and thoroughly grasp how to leverage these valuable methods.
The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to capturing phenomena not easily measured quantitatively, offering exciting, nimble opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data.
In this step-by-step guide to conducting a research study, Linda McMullen describes the innovative ways in which discursive psychology analyzes language at both the micro and macro levels.
Discursive psychologists reconceptualize talk and text as being situated in a social context, rather than thinking of talk as a route to our thoughts. For example, this approach could be used to study how people use arguments for and against the notion of human-induced climate change, or how they criticize each other in face-to-face encounters.
About the Essentials of Qualitative Methods book series: Even for experienced researchers, selecting and correctly applying the right method can be challenging. In this groundbreaking series, leading experts in qualitative methods provide clear, crisp, and comprehensive descriptions of their approach, including its methodological integrity, and its benefits and limitations. Each book includes numerous examples to enable readers to quickly and thoroughly grasp how to leverage these valuable methods.
Series Foreword—Clara E. Hill and Sarah Knox
1. Conceptual Foundations of Discursive Psychology
What Is Discourse, and What Is Discourse Analysis?
What Is Discursive Psychology, and What Is Critical Discursive
Psychology?
Why Choose Discursive Psychology, and What Does This Choice
Entail?
What Are Some Major Components of Discursive Psychology?
Deciding Whether to Use This Methodology
2. Designing a Study
Stating the Topic and Engaging in Initial Searches of
Literatures
Framing the Research Question(s)
Determining What Type of Data to Collect or Generate to Address
Your Research Questions
3. Collecting and Generating Data
Collecting Archival or Already Existing Data
Generating Data From Interviews or Focus Groups
4. Analyzing Your Data
A Process of Data Analysis
Examples of Detailed Analyses of Extracts of Data
Concluding Comments on Analyzing Your Data
5. Disseminating Your Research
Preparing a Manuscript for Publication in a Journal
Beyond the Manuscript
6. What Constitutes Good Discursive Research?
Documentation
Demonstration
Plausibility
Coherence
Fruitfulness
7. Ongoing Conversations
Questions of Ethics
Questions Related to Conceptual Advancements and Methodological
Innovations
Final Thoughts
Appendix A: Exemplar Studies
Appendix B: Commonly Used Transcription Notations
Appendix C: Examples of Discursive Devices and Resources
References
Index
About the Author
About the Series Editors
Linda M. McMullen is professor emerita of psychology at the
University of Saskatchewan (Canada) and is co-author of Five Ways
of Doing Qualitative Analysis: Phenomenological Psychology,
Grounded Theory, Discourse Analysis, Narrative Research, and
Intuitive Inquiry and co-editor of Situating Sadness: Women and
Depression in Social Context. Her recent publications include
discursive analyses of service providers’ and service users’
accounts of depression and the use of antidepressants. She has
served as president of the Society for Qualitative Inquiry in
Psychology (a section of the Division of Quantitative and
Qualitative Methods of the American Psychological Association).
This excellent, readily accessible book covers the key steps
involved in conducting discursive psychological studies, discussing
theoretical background and research design through to publication
and dissemination of findings. The useful examples neatly clarify
the points and decisions involved in each step.
*Professor Chris McVittie, Fellow of the American Psychological
Association, Division 5, and Professor of Social Psychology, Queen
Margaret University, Edinburgh, Musselburgh, Scotland*
This accessible text renders the process of doing discursive
psychology transparent. McMullen leads us through the stages of
discursive psychological research, using clear examples while also
pointing to the possibilities, limitations, and debates associated
with such research. It is appropriate for students as well as
researchers interested in the analysis of language-as-used.
*H. Lorraine Radtke, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of
Psychology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada*
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