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<A title=jonathan.newton@VUW.AC.NZ
href="mailto:jonathan.newton@VUW.AC.NZ">Jonathan Newton</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 14, 2002 10:17
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> how to analyze discourse
strategies for expressing controversial opinions</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Dear list members (apologies for cross-posting from LANGUSE
list)<BR><BR>A colleague from psychology has asked for advice on how to code
70+ pieces of open-ended qualitative data (written) concerning how one ethnic
group feels about allocating scholarships to another minority
group. The design involved four experimental conditions (Indept
variables) in which participants were responding to four different
justifications for the focused scholarships. Some of the responses are quite
direct and aggressive in their expression while others use lots of hedging and
strongly qualified statements of opinion. What my colleague needs is
advice on how to <B>code and quantify</B> these differences at a
linguistic/discursive level. He is then interested in relating these
identifiable discursive patterns to established scales in psychology such as
modern racism, social dominance orientation, and authoritarian personality and
to identify the different discursive repertoires that students are using to
justify the allocation of resources to different people. <BR><BR>The issue is
then, what DA frameworks exist that might assist this analysis? So far we've
discussed analyzing hedging devices, modality, vocabulary (unfair, handouts,
racist etc), positioning of self (I think, we..., show me... we are one
nation...) but need to come up with a coding system that allows comparison of
count data. <BR><BR>Suggestions gratefully received!!<BR><BR>many
thanks<BR>jonathan <BR> ************************************************
<BR> Jonathan Newton <BR> Senior lecturer & Cert/DipTESOL
Programme Director<BR> School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
<BR> Victoria University of Wellington <BR> P.O. Box 600 Wellington,
New Zealand <BR> Tel + 64 4 463-5622, Fax + 64 4 463-5604
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<BR>Wellington July 5-8 2002!!!!<BR>Check out the conference web site <A
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