Dear Jan, I am not sure I understood what you are trying to say in your
message. So, what is your conclusion, if you have one?
Anna Triandafyllidou
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>Subject: Re: Grounded Theory and WinMAX 97
>From: Jan Theodore Galkowski <[log in to unmask]>
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>At 05:09 PM 6/19/98 +0200, you wrote:
>>Dear Harald,
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>>I am not interested in word or string searching in the text, the kind of
>>thing that 'classical' content analysis methods would do. My objective is
>>to trace and analyse features of the context in which the text (or
>>transcribed oral speech) is produced by means of examining the structural
>>or semantic features of the discourse. These may be interpretive frames,
>>themes, semantic macrostructures (see Van Dijk), or simply reference to a
>>social relationship or an encounter, real or imaginary
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>>I hope now I have given you a clear idea of what I want to achieve. Thus, i
>>can build a coding scheme in which I insert the whatever coding categories
>>I have chosen to examine (e.g. frames, themes, pairs of actors, types of
>>relationships etc.) and code my raw text.
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>>.................................Is buying a new software worth the money,
>>time and effort investment???
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>Well, people do make do with much more fundamental tools. I once had
>a look at the data from a behavioral study of manatees trying to discern
>sociological patterns in their mutual orientations which was presented
>in a spreadsheet format, but with very many long textual annotations.
>I've often thought that such records would be more appropriately
>expressed in a QDA tool. In fact, one of my hobbies is looking at
>bioacoustic records and if I don't get Atlas-TI or something similar
>for reasons of work, I may get it for the hobby, so I can exploit
>their advertised ability to annotate images and such as well as text.
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>>I forgot to say that usually I am involved with not too large sets of data:
>>e.g. 35 interviews of 10 pages each or 40 newspaper articles of varying
>>lengths etc.
>>Thus, the DBMS software allows me to systematise my material, code in and
>>retrieve whenever I want the segments that I find revealing and/or relevant
>>for my hypothesis.
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>The manatee study had something like 1300 different observations.
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| Dr. Anna Triandafyllidou |
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