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	تحلیل استعاره طولی	تحلیل محتوا
حوزه	کیفی	کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	2000s–2010s (systematic longitudinal application)	Systematised through Krippendorff's methodology work; 4th edition 2018
پدیدآور	Lynne Cameron and colleagues (discourse dynamics framework); broader tradition rooted in Lakoff & Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory (1980)	Klaus Krippendorff (systematic formulation); roots in early 20th-century communications research
نوع	Qualitative analytic method	Qualitative / mixed-method research technique
منبع بنیادین	Cameron, L., & Maslen, R. (Eds.). (2010). Metaphor Analysis: Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities. Equinox. ISBN: 978-1845531140	Krippendorff, K. (2018). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506395661
نام‌های دیگر	LMA, diachronic metaphor analysis, longitudinal conceptual metaphor study, repeated-measures metaphor analysis	İçerik Analizi, systematic content coding, quantitative content analysis
مرتبط	5	5
خلاصه	Longitudinal Metaphor Analysis (LMA) is a qualitative method that tracks how individuals or groups use metaphors across multiple time points to reveal conceptual, attitudinal, or identity shifts. Grounded in conceptual metaphor theory and discourse dynamics, it treats metaphor not as mere rhetorical decoration but as a window into evolving thought, belief, and meaning-making 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.