The History and Landscape of Conversation and Discourse Analysis

Happier on the outside? Discourses of exclusion, disempowerment and belonging from former autistic school staff

“…This interpretative, qualitative and iterative study derived from a social constructionist epistemology provides that realities within social contexts are created by and negotiated through language (Lester & O'Reilly, 2016; O'Reilly et al, 2016). Predicated on principles of disability rights and inclusion (Della Fina & Cera, 2015; Lim, 2020), this study is informed by a neurodiversity and social model of disability framework that posits an assumption of cogency in relation to its subjects (den Houting, 2019).…”

“…Data were analysed via a ‘traditional’ DA method (Lester & O'Reilly, 2016) and guided by insights on linguistic analysis provided by Wetherell et al (2001). The process was additionally informed by CDA, especially in its more emancipatory elements, the attention paid to power relations (Fairclough, 2015) and the focus on discourses by disabled participants ‘as constructed in their own talk’ (Scior, 2003, p. 780).…”

“…There is no ‘universal recipe’ for DA (Lehane, 2016, p. 9), nor does the process necessarily entail specific ‘steps’ (Lester & O'Reilly, 2016). For this study, multiple readings of the full interviews were initially undertaken to identify ‘recurring elements in the body of talk’ (Taylor, 2001, p. 15), enabling the gradual identification of emergent groupings and patterns through a constant comparison approach.…”

“…Discourse analysis (DA) is a broad term that encompasses a range of analytical approaches consisting of ‘the close study of language in use’ within social contexts (Taylor, 2001, p. 5) and includes Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Foucauldian Analysis, amongst other methods (Lester & O'Reilly, 2016; Wetherell et al, 2001). Moreover, in its focus on ‘discourse as a fluid, shifting medium in which meaning is created and contested’ (Taylor, 2001, p. 9), DA has some similarities and overlaps with other linguistic analytical disciplines such as stylistics and literary criticism (Abdulmughni, 2019).…”

Unpacking the Complexity of Gender Integration in the U.S. Military Using Discourse Analysis: The Case of Servicewomen’s Talk Around Having to Prove Themselves

“…The orthographic transcripts of the interviewsshowing the content of the interviews in terms of what was said by the interlocutorsavailable from Women's Memorial Foundation Oral History Program and the Library of Congress have been supplemented with more detailed interactional symbols following Jefferson (2004) to convey a better sense of the complex interactional dynamics of the interview discourse. Another reason for a more detailed yet simplified Jeffersonian transcription was the fact that the analysis focuses both on what as well as how of the interaction in accordance with the tenets of discourse analysis (Antaki et al 2003) The interviews used in the study are analysed with the methods of discourse analysis (DA) (Lester & O'Reilly 2016) andas pointed out abovethe focus falls not only on what is talked about but also on "what is analytically sayable about the participants' talk" (Kitzinger 2000: 123). DA is based on the assumption that any "discourse exhibits recurrent patterns" (Herring 2004: 342) and thus the role of analyst is to identify them.…”