We`ve compiled a small, incomplete overview of literature, to give you a few examples where and how MAXQDA was applied in the context of a discourse analysis:
[list:2ygti37x][list:2ygti37x]Bosman, R. et al.: Discursive regime dynamics in the Dutch energy transition. In: Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 13 (pp. 45-59), 2014
Cameron, C.A.: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gendered Language in Online Parenting Education. Diss. Mount Saint Vincent University, 2013
Catalano, T./ Creswell, J.W.: Understanding the language of the occupy movement: A cognitive linguistic analysis. Qualitative Inquiry 19.9 (pp. 664-673), 2013
Cotton, M./ Imogen,R. / Van Alstine, J.: Shale gas policy in the United Kingdom: An argumentative discourse analysis. In: Energy Policy 73 (pp. 427-438), 2014
Galasiński, D./ Sque, M.: Organ donation agency: A discourse analysis of correspondence between donor and organ recipient families. In: Sociology of Health & Illness 38.8 (pp. 1350-1363), 2016
Galasinski, D.: Fathers, fatherhood and mental illness: A discourse analysis of rejection. Springer, 2013.
Herschinger, E.: ‘Hell is the other’: conceptualising hegemony and identity through discourse theory. In: Millennium-Journal of International Studies 41.1 (pp. 65-90), 2013
Husar, J.: A Comparative Approach to Foreign Policy Discourse Analysis. Framing Foreign Policy in India, Brazil and South Africa. Springer International Publishing, 2016
Karikari, I.: Child labor: A critical discourse analysis. Diss. faculty of the University Graduate School in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in the School of Social Work, Indiana University, 2016.
Kuckartz, A./ Sharp, M.J.: Responsibility: A Key Category for Understanding the Discourse on the Financial Crisis-Analyzing the KWALON Data Set with MAXQDA 10. In: Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Vol. 12. No. 1., Freie Universität Berlin, 2011.
Lossman, H./ So, H.-J.: Toward pervasive knowledge building discourse: analyzing online and offline discourses of primary science learning in Singapore. In: Asia Pacific Education Review 11.2 (pp. 121-129), 2010
Messerschmidt, R.: Revealing the governmentality of demographic change in Germany with the manifold discourse-analytical ‘toolbox’of Foucault. In: New Perspectives on Discourse and Governmentality (pp. 353-386), 2016
Mikalayeva, L.: Reporting under International Conventions: A Genre Analysis. In: The Hague Journal of Diplomacy 7.3 (pp. 287-312), 2012
Morris, Jonathan. Exploring the discursive limits of “suicide” in the classroom: A Foucauldian-inspired discourse analysis of a school-based youth suicide prevention program. Diss. University of Victoria, 2010.
Pastrana, T./ Jünger, S./ Ostgathe, C./ Elsner, F. /Radbruch, L.: A matter of definition–key elements identified in a discourse analysis of definitions of palliative care. In: Palliative Medicine, 22(3), (pp. 222-232), 2008
Schmidtke, H./ Nullmeier, F.: Political valuation analysis and the legitimacy of international organizations. In: German Policy Studies Vol.7 No.3, (p. 117), 2011
Sutherland, O./ Breen, A. V./ Lewis, S. P.: Discursive Narrative Analysis: A Study of Online Autobiographical Accounts of Self-Injury. In: The Qualitative Report, 18(48), (pp.1-17), 2013
Van Dyk, Silke, et al.: The many meanings of “active ageing”. Confronting public discourse with older people’s stories. In: Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques 44-1, (pp. 97-115), 2013
Zeyer, A.: Students’ post-ecological discourse in a secondary one STSE (science-technology-society-environment) education. National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST) Annual International Conference, Baltimore, MD, 2008
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And here`s a short overview of general literature on CAQDAS in the context of discourse analysis:
[list:2ygti37x][list:2ygti37x]Boréus, K., /Bergström, G.: Content analysis. Analyzing Text and Discourse: Eight Approaches for the Social Sciences. Sage Publications Ltd., 2017
Gibbs, G.R. : Using software in qualitative analysis. In: Flick, U. (ed.): The sage handbook of qualitative data analysis, (pp. 277-295), Sage Publications Ltd., 2014
Jen, C.C.: SARS Discourse Analysis: Technoscientific Race-nation-gender Formations in Public Health Discourse. ProQuest, 2008.
Lester, J.N.: Leveraging two computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software packages to support discourse analysis. In: Hai-Jew, D. (ed.): Enhancing qualitative and mixed methods research with technology, (pp. 194-209), IGI Global, 2015
Macgilchrist, F. / Van Hout, T.: Ethnographic discourse analysis and social science." In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Vol. 12. No. 1, 2011
MacMillan, K.: More than just coding? Evaluating CAQDAS in a discourse analysis of news texts. In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung/Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Vol. 6. No. 3, 2005, available at:
http://www.qualitative-research.net/ind ... view/28/59Pollak, S., et al.: Detecting contrast patterns in newspaper articles by combining discourse analysis and text mining. In: Pragmatics 21.4 (pp. 647-683), 2011
Wiedemann, G.: Opening up to big data: Computer-assisted analysis of textual data in social sciences. In: Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung (pp. 332-357), 2013[/list:u:2ygti37x][/list:u:2ygti37x]
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