Compara mètodes

	Anàlisi Temàtica Reflexiva	Anàlisi del Discurs
Camp	Qualitativa	Recerca qualitativa
Família	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Any d'origen	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
Autor original	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Tipus	Qualitative research method	Method
Font seminal	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
Àlies	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
Relacionats	6	2
Resum	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.	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.