A Parsimonious Theory Can Account for Complex Phenomena : A Discursive Analysis of Edwards and Potter's Critique of Non - Discursive Language Research  

Oleh:

Schmid, Jeannette ; Fiedler, Klaus

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Theory and Psychology vol. 9 no. 6 (Des. 1999), page 807–822.
Topik: RESEARCH; attribution; discourse; language; linguistic categories; parsimoniuos; theory; complex phenomena; discursive; analysis; critique
Fulltext: 807TP96.pdf (82.2KB)

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A strong case was made by Edwards and Potter (1993) that discourse analysis is superior to alternative approaches to language analysis. In the present article we apply four models of language analysis to Edwards and Potter's paper, including our Linguistic Category Model (LCM) and their Discursive Action Model (DAM), with converging results. It is concluded that a complex phenomenon like real language in social context does not necessarily need models and methods approaching the same level of complexity. A more parsimonious model can be even better suited to the task.

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