Comparar métodos

	Análisis de contenido legal	Análisis del Discurso
Campo	Métodos de campo	Investigación cualitativa
Familia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Año de origen	1940s–1970s (applied systematically to legal texts)	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
Autor original	Interdisciplinary; foundational content analysis by Harold Lasswell (1940s); applied to legal texts by empirical legal scholars from the 1970s onward	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Tipo	Systematic qualitative-quantitative text analysis	Method
Fuente seminal	Krippendorff, K. (2004). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761915454	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
Alias	LCA, legal text analysis, jurimetric content analysis, statutory content analysis	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
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Resumen	Legal content analysis applies the systematic procedures of content analysis to legal texts — statutes, regulations, judicial opinions, treaties, and legal commentaries — in order to identify patterns, themes, and trends across a corpus of legal material. It bridges qualitative legal scholarship and quantitative social-science methods, enabling researchers to draw reproducible, evidence-based conclusions about how law is written, applied, or has changed over time.	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.