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	বর্ণনামূলক বিশ্লেষণ	কেস স্টাডি গবেষণা	বিষয়বস্তু বিশ্লেষণ	ডিসকোর্স অ্যানালাইসিস
ক্ষেত্র	গুণগত	গুণগত	গুণগত	গুণগত গবেষণা
পরিবার	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
উদ্ভবের বছর	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)	1984 (seminal codification)	Systematised through Krippendorff's methodology work; 4th edition 2018	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
প্রবর্তক	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)	Robert K. Yin (systematised in Case Study Research, 1984)	Klaus Krippendorff (systematic formulation); roots in early 20th-century communications research	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
ধরন	Qualitative interpretive method	Qualitative research design	Qualitative / mixed-method research technique	Method
মৌলিক উৎস	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.	Yin, R.K. (2018). Case Study Research and Applications: Design and Methods (6th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506336169	Krippendorff, K. (2018). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506395661	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
অপর নাম	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)	Vaka Çalışması (Case Study), case study design, case study methodology	İçerik Analizi, systematic content coding, quantitative content analysis	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
সম্পর্কিত	6	5	5	2
সারসংক্ষেপ	Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method, synthesised canonically by Catherine Kohler Riessman (2008), that examines how individuals storise their lived experiences and construct meaning through the telling. Drawing on life history, biographical, and narrative inquiry traditions, it treats the story itself — not just its content — as the unit of analysis, attending to temporal sequence, plot structure, and the social context in which a narrative is produced.	Case study research is a qualitative research design that investigates a specific phenomenon, individual, group, organisation, or event in depth within its real-world context. Systematised by Robert K. Yin in 1984, it supports single-case and multiple-case designs and draws on multiple data sources — interviews, observation, documents, and artefacts — to build a rich, contextualised account of a bounded unit.	Content analysis is a systematic research technique for reducing text, visual, or media material into coded categories so that patterns can be counted, compared, and interpreted. Formalised by Klaus Krippendorff in his widely cited methodology textbook (latest edition 2018), the method sits at the boundary of qualitative and quantitative inquiry: it imposes structured, replicable coding on inherently meaning-laden material.	Discourse analysis is a qualitative research methodology that examines how language, communication, and power shape meaning, identity, and social reality. Developed across linguistics, sociology, and psychology (particularly by Norman Fairclough and Jonathan Potter), discourse analysis goes beyond content to analyze language use as a social practice that constitutes and reflects power relations, ideologies, and social structures.