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	Fenomenologia Descrittiva	Analisi del Discorso
Campo	Qualitativo	Ricerca qualitativa
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	1970s–1985 (systematised by Giorgi; refined 2009)	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
Ideatore	Amedeo Giorgi (adapting Edmund Husserl's transcendental phenomenology)	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Tipo	Qualitative research method	Method
Fonte seminale	Giorgi, A. (2009). The Descriptive Phenomenological Method in Psychology: A Modified Husserlian Approach. Duquesne University Press. ISBN: 978-0820703992	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
Alias	Giorgi method, empirical phenomenology, scientific phenomenology, Husserlian descriptive phenomenology	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
Correlati	6	2
Sintesi	Descriptive Phenomenology, systematised by Amedeo Giorgi at Duquesne University, is a rigorous qualitative method for uncovering the general psychological structure of a lived experience. Drawing directly on Husserl's transcendental phenomenology, Giorgi's four-step procedure — epoché, whole reading, meaning-unit discrimination, and transformation into disciplinary language — produces a stable, replicable description of what makes an experience essentially what it is, without theoretical interpretation or causal explanation.	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.