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Reviewing and problematizing methods and analytical strategies of discourse analysis in sport, exercise, and physical education studies.
- Source :
- International Review for the Sociology of Sport; Mar2024, Vol. 59 Issue 2, p298-317, 20p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- The field of sport, exercise, and physical education studies continues to utilize and strives to enhance rigor in qualitative approaches. We build upon this work by narrowing a focus to appropriately applying rigorous discourse analysis (DA). Though variations of DA have been increasingly incorporated into sport, exercise, and physical education studies, a comprehensive overview specifically covering which methods underpin DA and which analytical strategies are adopted is missing. Therefore, we conducted a structured scoping review by identifying 1810 papers from journal and database searches from 2000 to April 2022, then narrowed the sample to 560 papers that specifically conducted a DA. The review focuses on studies and practices within Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Discursive Psychology. By adopting a problematizing approach, we critically question taken-for-granted practices of DA, and through our synthesis, we argue that uses of DA tend to be organized around three archetypes: as a method detached from theoretical origin, as a lens with less emphasis on methodological description by primarily utilizing theory to contextualize and interpret insights, and as a path where theory and methods overlap with appropriate methodological descriptions focusing on textual analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10126902
- Volume :
- 59
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Review for the Sociology of Sport
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175791330
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902231200369