---------- > De: Judy Norris <[log in to unmask]> > Assunto: CALL FOR PAPERS: Advances in Qualitative Computing Symposium > Dear Judy I am sending you an abtract proposal for a paper to your symposium IS DISCOURSE ANALYSIS COMPATIBLE WITH QUALITATIVE COMPUTING? José Azevedo, Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. 4150 Porto. Portugal Email: [log in to unmask] Departing from 1) the notion that systematic examination of discourse provides a rich source of data for describing the complex relationships among language, social context and the processes that underlie discourse comprehension and production; 2) the undeveloped potential that still exists in qualitative computing. We want to discuss in this paper some of the problems and challenges that software developers have to address when faced with areas and themes like: social construcionism conditions of possibility for discourse deconstruction of dominant discourses subject positions problems of reading and interpretation criteria in discursive research etc. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%