If I want to write research that analyses the metaphor of Shakespeare's play and how it can be used to reflect and study accounting ethics implementation, what's the proper approach to the research? I do not conduct interviews and such, and my main resource for the research is just text of the play itself, and I will use the behavior and decision-making choices that the characters made throughout each acts and how it can be used as example in modern ethic behavior.
Hello,
I find the following components in your question:
- Shakespeare
- metaphor
- accounting ethics
- reflection
- ethic behavior
- decision-making
- qualitative research
- research methodology
What are your reasons to think that this kind of combination can be relevant and fruitful in research design? Do you have any literature warrant for this structure?
It might be practical to draw a mindmap which informs the readers of these relationships, that is: the logic of your design.
Good luck,
When I read you question, some terms and expressions have captured my attention: metaphor, play itself, behavior and decision-making choices, and how it can be used as example in modern ethic behavior. I did something similar for my MA. Regarding Qualitative Analysis, it could be useful to think about content analysis or thematic analysis (it depends on the focus that you want to adopt). I would also suggest to consider the field of corpus linguistics approaches. In particular, to study metaphor you could read the subsection Metaphor (pp. 166-173) in the book Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (chapter 7 Beyond Collocation).
Here, the link to the publisher's website of the book:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/using-corpora-in-discourse-analysis-9781441198549/
I think that work from The ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS) at Lancaster University can be quite inspiring (e.g., Elena Semino's works on metaphors and there are also professors interested in the analysis of Shakespeare).
It sounds as if the main focus of your research is ethics and decision making, rather than metaphors and language? The Shakespearean Ethic by John Vyvyan might be a good starting point (see https://shepheard-walwyn.co.uk/product/the-shakespearean-ethic/).
Personally, I would consider writing vignettes from the plays and using these during interviews (or even questionnaire) as this would produce data around current decision making, in a way that a textual analysis of a historical literature work will not.
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