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Dear list members (apologies for cross-posting from LANGUSE list)<br>
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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>
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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>
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Suggestions gratefully received!!<br>
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many thanks<br>
jonathan <br>
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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 <br>
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