Vertaile menetelmiä

	Hermeneuttinen analyysi – Tekstien tulkitseva ymmärtäminen	Diskurssianalyysi
Tieteenala	Kenttämenetelmät	Laadullinen tutkimus
Menetelmäperhe	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Syntyvuosi	19th–20th century (Schleiermacher ~1819; Dilthey ~1883; Gadamer 1960; Ricoeur 1969)	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
Kehittäjä	Friedrich Schleiermacher; Wilhelm Dilthey; Hans-Georg Gadamer; Paul Ricoeur	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Tyyppi	Qualitative interpretive method	Method
Alkuperäislähde	Gadamer, H.-G. (1975). Truth and Method (G. Barden & J. Cumming, Trans.). Seabury Press. (Original work published 1960 as Wahrheit und Methode). ISBN: 978-0826400185	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
Rinnakkaisnimet	hermeneutics, hermeneutical interpretation, interpretive hermeneutics, philosophical hermeneutics	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
Liittyvät	6	2
Tiivistelmä	Hermeneutic analysis is a qualitative interpretive method for uncovering the meaning of texts, documents, spoken discourse, or human actions. Rooted in 19th-century biblical and legal scholarship and systematised by Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, it operates through the hermeneutic circle: the meaning of a part is understood through the whole, and the meaning of the whole is revised as parts are interpreted. The goal is not to measure or code, but to achieve a deepening, dialogic understanding of the object of interpretation.	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.