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	تحلیل مضمون بازتابی	تحلیل گفتمان
حوزه	کیفی	پژوهش کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	2006 (seminal paper); explicitly named 'reflexive' from ~2019	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
پدیدآور	Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
نوع	Qualitative research 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	RTA, reflexive TA, Braun and Clarke thematic analysis, qualitative thematic analysis	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
مرتبط	6	2
خلاصه	Reflexive Thematic Analysis (RTA) is a widely used qualitative method for identifying, analysing, and interpreting patterns of shared meaning — called themes — across a dataset. Developed by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke, it is theoretically flexible, works across epistemological positions, and foregrounds the researcher's active, interpretive role rather than treating themes as features that simply emerge from data. It differs from older 'codebook' approaches by treating the analyst's subjectivity as a resource rather than a source of bias to be suppressed.	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.