Research Methods

What CDA actually analyses: how texts enact and naturalise power. The Fairclough and van Dijk traditions, a defensible procedure, and the advocacy trap.

Labov’s structural model and Riessman’s four approaches. How narrative analysis treats form as data, what it can show that coding cannot, and when to avoid it.

Discourse analysis treats talk and text as social action. Interpretative repertoires, the action orientation, how to do it, and the difference from content analysis.