How Content Analysis may Complement and Extend the Insights of Discourse Analysis: An Example of Research on Constructions of Abortion in South African Newspapers 1978–2005

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

TraceyFeltham-King¹ 

关键词: mixed methods;    discourse analysis;    Foucault;    content analysis;    abortion;    subject positioning;    newspapers;    media;   

DOI  :  10.1177/1609406915624575

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Although discourse analysis is a well-established qualitative research methodology, little attention has been paid to how discourse analysis may be enhanced through careful supplementation with the quantification allowed in content analysis. In this article, we report on a research study that involved the use of both Foucauldian discourse analysis (FDA) and directed content analysis based on social constructionist theory and our qualitative research findings. The research focused on the discourses deployed, and the ways in which women were discursively positioned, in relation to abortion in 300 newspaper articles, published in 25 national and regional South African newspapers over 28 years, from 1978 to 2005. While the FDA was able to illuminate the constitutive network of power relations constructing women as subjects of a particular kind, questions emerged that were beyond the scope of the FDA. These questions concerned understanding the relative weightings of various discourses and tracing historical c...

【 授权许可】

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