Au delà de l’opposition quantitatif/qualitatif. Convergence des opérations de la recherche en analyse du discours
Having shown that discourse analysis is not a discipline but a field of practice that lies at the confluence of a set of national and disciplinary traditions, we propose to abandon the sharp opposition between qualitative and quantitative approaches to the benefit of mixed methods. Not only does res...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO
2014-10-01
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| Series: | Corela |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/corela/3524 |
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| Summary: | Having shown that discourse analysis is not a discipline but a field of practice that lies at the confluence of a set of national and disciplinary traditions, we propose to abandon the sharp opposition between qualitative and quantitative approaches to the benefit of mixed methods. Not only does research show that there can be no mutual exclusion between types of methods, but all methods refer to a common pattern of knowledge that involves research operations that are shared. We show that explaining and understanding are not contradictory processes and that scientific interpretation can not stand independently of any explanatory operation. Any scientific process, qualitative or quantitative, is based on a common ground mobilizing research operations for the identification of units, their description and their analysis. While the analytical paradigms differ on their epistemological and methodological assumptions, they are facing the same problem of reducing and restoring complexity. We conclude in showing how the issues of causality and measurement arise in all scientific reasoning, wathever their nature, qualitative or quantitative. |
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| ISSN: | 1638-573X |