14. Reflections on Doing Analysis

  1. Val Williams

Published Online: 20 JAN 2011

DOI: 10.1002/9780470977934.ch14

Disability and Discourse: Analysing Inclusive Conversation with People with Intellectual Disabilities

Disability and Discourse: Analysing Inclusive Conversation with People with Intellectual Disabilities

How to Cite

Williams, V. (2011) Reflections on Doing Analysis, in Disability and Discourse: Analysing Inclusive Conversation with People with Intellectual Disabilities, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9780470977934.ch14

Author Information

  1. University of Bristol, UK

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 20 JAN 2011
  2. Published Print: 12 APR 2011

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9780470682661

Online ISBN: 9780470977934

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Keywords:

  • reflections on doing analysis;
  • opportunity, and methodology - reflecting on one's own experience as a qualitative researcher, using tools of CA;
  • discourse approach, and social research - engaging with debates in discourse analysis;
  • data collection, point of departure for CA - and for any research methodology;
  • ‘Finding Out’ project, keeping a tape recorder on - matter of expediency, being useful later;
  • outcomes of design, obtaining video material - potential participants in videos, contact with project through survey and/or interviews;
  • selection and transcription of data;
  • naturally occurring data, analysed and presented afresh - different stages of a project;
  • ‘Skills for Support’ - taking one's own analytic insights, back to colleagues with intellectual disabilities in the team;
  • ‘Skills for Support’, a ‘staged’ design - with different methods at each stage

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Data collection

  • Selection and transcription of data

  • Analysis

  • The distinctive stance of discourse analysis

  • To CA or not to CA?

  • Carrying out discourse analysis in an inclusive way