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	Jämförande hermeneutisk analys	Discourse Analysis
Ämnesområde	Fältmetoder	Kvalitativ forskning
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	Mid-20th century (Gadamer 1960; comparative extension developed 1970s–1990s)	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
Upphovsperson	Hans-Georg Gadamer; Paul Ricoeur; Wilhelm Dilthey (hermeneutic tradition); comparative extension by cross-cultural and comparative religion scholars	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Typ	Qualitative interpretive method	Method
Ursprungskälla	Gadamer, H.-G. (1975). Truth and Method (G. Barden & J. Cumming, Trans.). Seabury Press. (Original work published 1960) ISBN: 978-0826400185	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
Alias	comparative hermeneutics, cross-textual hermeneutics, comparative interpretive analysis, CHA	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
Närliggande	5	2
Sammanfattning	Comparative hermeneutic analysis is a qualitative method that applies hermeneutic interpretation across two or more texts, traditions, or discourses to reveal shared meanings, tensions, and divergences. Drawing on Gadamer's concept of the hermeneutic circle and Ricoeur's theory of text and meaning, it moves iteratively between the parts and the whole of each text while simultaneously holding multiple texts in dialogue, surfacing how different historical, cultural, or disciplinary contexts shape 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.