Exam 22: Language in Qualitative Research

Rhetoric concerns the study of language as a means of communication and persuasion within management and organisation.

Life history research has little application in narrative analysis

In critical discourse analysis, the role of language as a power resource is studied.

Which two ideas are central to ethnomethodology and find clear expression in conversation analysis? Please select all that apply.

Narrative analysis is an approach to the analysis of language, which sees people as tellers of stories about their lives or events around them.

Conversation analysis is only concerned with the analysis of face-to-face talk rather than mass media discourse.

One of the most basic ideas in conversation analysis is the notion that one of the ways in which order is achieved in everyday conversation is through turn-taking.

Which of the following is not an organisational research issue that a critical realist approach to discourse can address, as outlined by Fairclough (1995)?

Which of the following are characteristics that apply to discourse analysis? Please select all that apply.

Which of the following is not a feature of discourse analysis?

Which of the following are the basic assumptions of conversation analysis, as outlined by Heritage (1984, 1987)? Please select all that apply.

Which of the following are two distinctive features at the level of epistemology and ontology of discourse analysis? Please select all that apply.

Conversation analysis is a fine-grained approach to the use of language in use whose roots lie in ethnomethodology.

Which of the following is not a feature of a 'three-dimensional' framework to analyse a discursive event?

Research that investigates language in qualitative research is generally considered constructionist in orientation