Analysis of Texts and Documents

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ANALYSIS OF TEXTS AND

DOCUMENTS


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Definition Interrogative Insertion

Problem-Solution Discourse

Membership Categorization Rhetorical Analysis

Semiotics

Discourse Analysis


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DEFINITION

a collection and interpretation of written

sources


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INTERROGATIVE INSERTION

devising and inserting implied questions into

a text for which the text provides the answers


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PROBLEM-SOLUTION DISCOURSE

investigating more closely the implications of

statements


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TWO IMPLICATIONS

assertion of a fact or a report of a situation

call for action or a command


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CATEGORIES

the situation

the problem the response

the result and evaluation


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DECISION TREE

traces the problems and the possible solutions

with their implications


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MEMBERSHIP CATEGORIZATION

technique that analyses

the way people perceive commonly held views on

social organization

how people are expected to behave

how they relate to each other

what they do in different social situations


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Category-label for the unit being considered

Membership Category Device

-label given to a particular grouping of

categories into a unit


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Standardized Relational Pairs

-expected to perform in particular ways with

each other

Category Bound Activity

-type of expected behaviour


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RHETORICAL ANALYSIS

Rhetoric

-used to aim at a particular audience or

readership


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TYPICAL MARKERS IN PARTISAN

WRITING

Correct moral position

Alliance with oppressed groups Privileged understanding of the situation

Deconstruction of alternatives as

unbelievable


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MARKERS IN NON-PARTISAN WRITING

Objectivity

Methodical practice

Logicality circumspection


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SEMIOTICS

science of signs

used to examine other media as well as written

texts attempts to gain a deeper understanding of

meaning by the interpretation of a single

element of text


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TERMS USE IN SEMIOTICS

Sign

Signifier

Signified

Denotative meaning

Connotative meaning

Sign function

Polysemy

Code or sign system


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DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

studies the way people communicate with

each other through language within a

social setting


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TRIANGULAR RELATIONSHIP

between discourse, cognition, and society


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CENTRAL THEMES

interpretative context

rhetorical organization of the discourse


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practices that systematically form the objects of

which they speak

-Michel Foucalt


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HERMENEUTICS

derived from the techniques used to study

sacred texts

based on the principles of interpretivism


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3 STAGES

social-historical moment

formal moment

Interpretation-reinterpretation moment


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