Discourse analysis extracts the political meaning from the languages used (as this study is a linguistic analysis). After that, I combine the findings from discourse analysis by doing grounded theory to develop an understanding?
Dear Djamel Eddine Benchaib,
Good discourse analysis combines attention to the linguistic detail of discourses with in depth analysis of the context in which these discourses are produced. Depending on what your research objects and goals are, discourse analysis alone can be a sufficient comprehensive framework. If you intend to use grounded theory for some reason, you should probably think of it as an alternative comprehensive framework for doing your research, which influences and organizes the way you gather and analyze data from the start. Some discourse analytical methods may become a part of that (rather than being applied in a completely independent initial phase - a priori, that idea seems less promising).
Thank you very much I appreciate that. I am doing a linguistic research. This research connects two linguistic phenomena and therefore it is conducted in two stages: exploratory and explanatory. Discourse analysis can be used in the exploratory stage. and another approach of analysis for the explanatory stage. I still feel that both approaches are not adequate for the overall study, and there is a need for another approach ' Grounded theory' (third version of it, constructivist grounded theory) in order to combine the findings from both stages and develop an understanding or a theory.
I agree that Katherine Bischoping raises two important points. First, there is a major difference between the kind of the kind of discourse analysis associated with conversation analysis and kind associated with Foucault and other political or critical approaches.
Second, Grounded Theory insists on a minimum of preconceptions, so you would need to put it into the role of an exploratory approach, with your explanatory approach devoted to understanding the results from your GT.
The comments above really summarise well the differences between two well used methods of qualitative analysis. Speaking as someone who uses a range of qualitative analysis in my current role, but who was trained in classical Grounded Theory I would emphasise how rigorous the Grounded Theory methodology can be for bottom-up analysis. The testable hypothesis (Theory) which you are left with is directly derived from the data, and therefore the participants (it is Grounded). As many have said above, discourse analysis would be more heavily laden with your socio-political ideology and much more around the linguistic style over the content and narrative of the data. That is of course not to say that you could not triangulate the data or use some form of blended methodology but this is not common and I cannot say I have ever seen it being done in Psychology (my background). I would also suggest you look at potential re-analysis i.e. look for what the data tells you using a Grounded Theory Methodology, and another Discourse Analysis. If they are different results there may be two interesting and separate write ups - but be careful for double publication and self-plagarism. I hope you have some interesting finds!
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Dear Djamel,
I would like to add, in the same vein than previous comments, that the method of analysis should be chosen taking into account your research objectives. GT fits much more useful in the initial or exploratory stages of a research or when you have the objective of developing a theory. In you want to apply Discourse Analysis (in any of its versions) you need a minimal theoretical framework or at least some notions/ideas you want to apply in your analysis (thus, your analysis will be more theory-driven than with GT). So, I don't see how you can justify using Discourse Analysis "only" in the exploratory stage of your research.
My research connects two linguistic phenomena. Each stage deals with one phenomenon. However, my objectives are something related to the relationship of both. Therefore I am looking for combining both findings from both stages to do GT. in each stage I use a different, and thus different approaches (Discourse analysis, and Framework analysis). GT is the last thing I will do. I also find that it will be helpful if we use both designs so to keep the bias away (probably other issues). Thank you all for contributions! Bless you!
As several of us have pointed out, GT requires a minimum of preconceptions, so if you are using other research approaches to create a starting point for GT, that is unconventional at best.
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