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	تحلیل مضمونی تفسیری	تحلیل گفتمان
حوزه	کیفی	پژوهش کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	2006 (systematic formulation); interpretivist application developed through 2010s	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
پدیدآور	Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke (systematic method); interpretivist orientation traced to constructivist qualitative traditions	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
نوع	Qualitative data analysis method	Method
منبع بنیادین	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.
نام‌های دیگر	ITA, interpretive TA, interpretivist thematic analysis, constructivist thematic analysis	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
مرتبط	6	2
خلاصه	Interpretive thematic analysis is a form of thematic analysis conducted from an interpretivist or constructivist epistemological standpoint. Rather than treating themes as residing in the data waiting to be discovered, the researcher actively constructs meaning through their engagement with the data. Built on Braun and Clarke's systematic framework, the interpretive variant foregrounds the researcher's theoretical lens and reflexivity, producing analysis that goes beyond description to explain how social, cultural, or contextual forces shape participants' accounts.	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.