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	تحلیل استعاره تفسیری	Thematic Analysis
حوزه	کیفی	پژوهش کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1980 (conceptual foundations); 2000s (systematic qualitative procedure)	2006
پدیدآور	Rudolf Schmitt (systematic procedure); grounded in Lakoff & Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke
نوع	Qualitative interpretive analysis	Method
منبع بنیادین	Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1980). Metaphors We Live By. University of Chicago Press. ISBN: 978-0226468013	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.
نام‌های دیگر	IMA, hermeneutic metaphor analysis, qualitative metaphor analysis, interpretive conceptual metaphor analysis	TA, Reflexive Thematic Analysis
مرتبط	6	3
خلاصه	Interpretive metaphor analysis is a qualitative method that systematically identifies and interprets the conceptual metaphors embedded in participants' language to understand how they make meaning of their experiences. Rooted in Lakoff and Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory and adapted for empirical social research by Rudolf Schmitt, it applies a hermeneutic lens to treat metaphors not as stylistic ornaments but as windows into underlying cognitive and cultural frames.	Thematic Analysis (TA) is a qualitative research methodology for identifying, analyzing, and reporting patterns (themes) in qualitative data. Developed systematically by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (2006), TA is flexible and accessible, applicable across diverse theoretical frameworks and data types, making it one of the most widely used qualitative methods in psychology, health research, and social sciences.