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	Analisi Longitudinale della Metafora	Analisi Narrativa
Campo	Qualitativo	Qualitativo
Famiglia	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Anno di origine	2000s–2010s (systematic longitudinal application)	1967 (foundational); 2008 (canonical handbook)
Ideatore	Lynne Cameron and colleagues (discourse dynamics framework); broader tradition rooted in Lakoff & Johnson's conceptual metaphor theory (1980)	Catherine Kohler Riessman (seminal synthesis, 2008); roots in Labov & Waletzky (1967)
Tipo	Qualitative analytic method	Qualitative interpretive method
Fonte seminale	Cameron, L., & Maslen, R. (Eds.). (2010). Metaphor Analysis: Research Practice in Applied Linguistics, Social Sciences and the Humanities. Equinox. ISBN: 978-1845531140	Riessman, C.K. (2008). Narrative Methods for the Human Sciences. Sage.
Alias	LMA, diachronic metaphor analysis, longitudinal conceptual metaphor study, repeated-measures metaphor analysis	narrative inquiry, life history analysis, biographical research, Anlatı Analizi (Narrative Analysis)
Correlati	5	6
Sintesi	Longitudinal Metaphor Analysis (LMA) is a qualitative method that tracks how individuals or groups use metaphors across multiple time points to reveal conceptual, attitudinal, or identity shifts. Grounded in conceptual metaphor theory and discourse dynamics, it treats metaphor not as mere rhetorical decoration but as a window into evolving thought, belief, and meaning-making over time.	Narrative analysis is a qualitative research method, synthesised canonically by Catherine Kohler Riessman (2008), that examines how individuals storise their lived experiences and construct meaning through the telling. Drawing on life history, biographical, and narrative inquiry traditions, it treats the story itself — not just its content — as the unit of analysis, attending to temporal sequence, plot structure, and the social context in which a narrative is produced.