Comparer des méthodes

	Analyse documentaire interprétative	Analyse sémiotique interprétative
Domaine	Qualitatif	Qualitatif
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	2000s (building on hermeneutic traditions from the 20th century)	1960s–1990s
Auteur d'origine	Glenn Bowen (systematic method); Lindsay Prior (social use of documents)	Ferdinand de Saussure (foundational semiology); Roland Barthes (cultural/media application); Gunther Kress & Theo van Leeuwen (social semiotics)
Type	Qualitative document-based research method	Qualitative interpretive analysis
Source fondatrice	Bowen, G. A. (2009). Document analysis as a qualitative research method. Qualitative Research Journal, 9(2), 27–40.	Barthes, R. (1967). Elements of Semiology. Hill and Wang. ISBN: 978-0809013753
Alias	interpretive documentary analysis, hermeneutic document analysis, qualitative document analysis, interpretive textual analysis	semiotic discourse analysis, interpretive semiotics, social semiotics analysis, ISA
Apparentées	6	6
Résumé	Interpretive document analysis is a qualitative method that systematically examines written, visual, or digital documents to construct meaning from them within their social, historical, and institutional contexts. Rather than simply counting content categories, it reads documents as social artefacts — asking not only what a document says, but what it does, who produced it, for what purpose, and what assumptions it encodes. The approach draws on hermeneutic and interpretive traditions to move between individual passages and the broader context in which they were created.	Interpretive semiotic analysis is a qualitative method that examines how signs — words, images, symbols, gestures, and sounds — produce meaning within specific social and cultural contexts. Drawing on Saussurean semiology and Barthesian cultural analysis, the approach moves beyond surface-level description to uncover the layered, context-bound meanings that sign systems generate. It is widely used in media studies, communication, education, marketing, and cultural research to reveal how representations shape social reality.