Deck 22: Language in Qualitative Research

Question 1

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

Answer 1

True

Question 2

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

A) It is anti-realist
B) It is positivist
C) It is constructionist
D) It is objectivist

Answer 2

A,C

Question 3

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

A) Not just speech
B) Contextual understanding
C) Codification of practices
D) Sensitivity to what is unsaid

Answer 3

C

Question 4

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

A) Reading the detail
B) Looking for rhetorical detail
C) Looking for accountability
D) A focus on language as somehow reflective of social reality

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

A) The text dimension
B) The social policy dimension
C) The discursive practice dimension
D) The social practice dimension

Question 7

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

A) Emergence
B) Hegemony
C) Responsibility
D) Re-contextualisation

Question 8

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

Question 9

Life history research has little application in narrative analysis

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

Question 12

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

A) Indexicality
B) Criticality
C) Reflexivity
D) Relativism

Question 13

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

A) Talk is structured
B) Talk is unbounded
C) Talk is forged contextually
D) Talk is grounded in data

Question 14

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.

Question 15

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