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	تحلیل محتوای حقوقی	تحلیل محتوا
حوزه	روش‌های میدانی	کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	1940s–1970s (applied systematically to legal texts)	Systematised through Krippendorff's methodology work; 4th edition 2018
پدیدآور	Interdisciplinary; foundational content analysis by Harold Lasswell (1940s); applied to legal texts by empirical legal scholars from the 1970s onward	Klaus Krippendorff (systematic formulation); roots in early 20th-century communications research
نوع	Systematic qualitative-quantitative text analysis	Qualitative / mixed-method research technique
منبع بنیادین	Krippendorff, K. (2004). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (2nd ed.). Sage Publications. ISBN: 978-0761915454	Krippendorff, K. (2018). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506395661
نام‌های دیگر	LCA, legal text analysis, jurimetric content analysis, statutory content analysis	İçerik Analizi, systematic content coding, quantitative content analysis
مرتبط	6	5
خلاصه	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.	Content analysis is a systematic research technique for reducing text, visual, or media material into coded categories so that patterns can be counted, compared, and interpreted. Formalised by Klaus Krippendorff in his widely cited methodology textbook (latest edition 2018), the method sits at the boundary of qualitative and quantitative inquiry: it imposes structured, replicable coding on inherently meaning-laden material.