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	نقد متنی	تحلیل محتوا
حوزه	روش‌های میدانی	کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	Antiquity; modern systematic method c. 1850s (Lachmann)	Systematised through Krippendorff's methodology work; 4th edition 2018
پدیدآور	Classical philologists (Karl Lachmann foremost in systematic method)	Klaus Krippendorff (systematic formulation); roots in early 20th-century communications research
نوع	Humanistic / philological research method	Qualitative / mixed-method research technique
منبع بنیادین	West, M. L. (1973). Textual Criticism and Editorial Technique Applicable to Greek and Latin Texts. Teubner. ISBN: 978-3519074014	Krippendorff, K. (2018). Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1506395661
نام‌های دیگر	lower criticism, editorial criticism, philological criticism, manuscript criticism	İçerik Analizi, systematic content coding, quantitative content analysis
مرتبط	5	5
خلاصه	Textual criticism is a systematic philological method for identifying, comparing, and evaluating variant readings across multiple manuscript or print witnesses of a text in order to reconstruct the most accurate version of the original — or the author's intended — text. Applied since antiquity to classical, biblical, and literary works, it remains the foundational editorial method in classical studies, biblical scholarship, medieval studies, and critical editing of literary works.	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.