Methodological correctness of research in the discursive science field

Symposium: Epistemological foundation and methodological exactness regarding research in the discursive science

Martina Sarasin - Gian Piero Turchi -Roberta Durante
Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, University of Padova

INTRODUCTION
Coherently with the assumptions of Discursive Science, the Methodology of analysis of textual data (MADIT) allows to analyse texts that are generated by answers given to opened questions appositely structured.
METHOD
The data analysis with M.A.D.I.T, implies to not focus the attention to the meaning of the texts collected but, considering as valid this, to analyse the argumentative architecture of the answers in their totality, to underline the discursive steps that make the answer peculiar and characteristic. Using M.A.D.I.T, is possible to describe the modality in which the texts analysed are generated (process). M.A.D.I.T is founded on three criterions: first is the research aim (shareable and measurable): it has an abstract purpose that generates a series of organiser processes. Second: the question, or the strategy to collect the text, in order to reach the aim of the research; third: statistic mathematic index of the analyse tool.
RESULTS
The reference to the context use generated by the question in relation with the research aim, permits to analyse the graphic form not only about their lexical means, but also about their argumentative position that is assumed in the text configuration.

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