Methoden vergleichen

	Visuelle Elicitation-Semiotische Analyse	Multimodale Diskursanalyse
Fachgebiet	Qualitativ	Linguistik
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Entstehungsjahr	2000s–2010s (practice consolidated in visual qualitative research)	1996
Urheber	Convergence of Douglas Harper (visual elicitation) and Roland Barthes / Theo van Leeuwen (semiotics)	Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen
Typ	Qualitative research design and analysis approach	Empirical process pipeline
Wegweisende Quelle	Harper, D. (2002). Talking about pictures: A case for photo elicitation. Visual Studies, 17(1), 13–26.	Kress, G., & Van Leeuwen, T. (2006). Reading Images: The Grammar of Visual Design (2nd ed.). London: Routledge.
Aliasnamen	photo-elicitation semiotics, image-elicitation semiotic inquiry, visual stimulus semiotic analysis, VESA	Multimodal Analysis, Semiotic Analysis
Verwandt	6	2
Zusammenfassung	Visual elicitation semiotic analysis is a qualitative approach that uses visual materials — photographs, images, film stills, or artefacts — as stimuli to provoke participant accounts, then subjects both the images and the participant-generated responses to semiotic analysis to unpack layers of denotative and connotative meaning. The method bridges the participatory strengths of photo-elicitation with the sign-system rigour of semiotics, making it especially productive in cultural, media, and social identity research.	Multimodal Discourse Analysis is a method for examining how meaning is created through the integration of multiple modes of communication: language, image, sound, gesture, and spatial arrangement. Developed by Gunther Kress, Theo Van Leeuwen, and others, this approach recognizes that in contemporary communication—from videos to websites to classrooms—meaning is rarely conveyed by language alone. By analyzing how text, visuals, sound, and other modes work together, multimodal analysis reveals how complex meanings are constructed.