Whats and Hows? The Practice-Based Typology of Narrative Analyses

• Authors: Grzegorz Bryda

Title variants

Co i jak? Typologia analiz narracyjnych oparta na praktykach badawczych

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The nature of qualitative research practices is multiparadigmaticity which creates coexistence of different research and analytical approaches to the study of human experience in the living world. This diversity is particularly observed in the contemporary field of narrative research and data analysis. The purpose of this article is a methodological reflection on the process of developing typology and a proposition of new data-driven and practice-based typology of narrative analyses used by qualitative researchers in the lived experience research. I merge the CAQDAS, Corpus Linguistics, and Text Mining procedures to examine the analytical strategies inherited in a vivid language of English-language research articles, published in five influential qualitative methodological journals between 2002-2016. Using the dictionary-based content analysis in the coding process, hierarchical clustering, and topic modeling – a text-mining tool for discovering hidden semantic structures in a textual body – I confront Catherine Kohler Riessman’s heuristic typology with the data-driven approach in order to contribute the more coherent image of narrative analysis in the contemporary field of qualitative research. Finally, I propose a new model of thinking about the typology of narrative analyses based upon research practices.

PL

Istotą jakościowych praktyk badawczych jest wieloparadygmatyczność, która rodzi współistnienie różnych podejść metodologicznych w analizie i badaniu ludzkich doświadczeń w świecie życia codziennego. Różnorodność ta jest szczególnie widoczna w dziedzinie badań i analizy danych narracyjnych. Celem artykułu jest refleksja metodologiczna nad tworzeniem typologii analiz narracyjnych i zarazem propozycja nowego sposobu typologizacji podejść analitycznych, opartego na łączeniu lingwistyki korpusowej i przetwarzania języka naturalnego z procedurami CAQDAS, analizy treści i Text Mining. Typologia ta jest oparta na analizie narracyjnych praktyk badawczych odzwierciedlonych w języku anglojęzycznych artykułów opublikowanych w pięciu uznanych na świecie jakościowych czasopismach metodologicznych w latach 2002–2016. W artykule wykorzystuję metodę słownikową w procesie kodowania artykułów, hierarchiczne grupowanie i modelowanie tematyczne w celu odkrywania w tych publikacjach różnych typów analiz narracyjnych i badania relacji semantycznych między nimi. Jednocześnie konfrontuję heurystyczną typologię Riessmana z podejściem opartym na lingwistyce i eksploracji danych w celu rozwijania spójnego obrazu metodologii analizy narracyjnej we współczesnej dziedzinie badań jakościowych. Ostatecznie przedstawiam nowy model myślenia o analizie narracyjnej.

Keywords

EN

Narrative Analysis; CAQDAS; Content Analysis; Text Mining; dictionary-based coding; topic modeling

PL

analiza narracyjna; CAQDAS; analiza treści; Text Mining; kodowanie słownikowe; modelowanie tematyczne; analiza narracyjna; CAQDAS; analiza treści; Text Mining; kodowanie słownikowe; modelowanie tematyczne

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 120-142

Dates

published

2020-08-31

Contributors

author

Grzegorz Bryda

• Jagiellonian University, Institute of Sociology, CAQDAS TM Lab

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8892-099X

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1733-8069.16.3.08