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	Interpretativ visuell analys	Discourse Analysis
Ämnesområde	Kvalitativa metoder	Kvalitativ forskning
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	Late 20th century; Rose's visual methodologies framework developed 2001 onward	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
Upphovsperson	Gillian Rose (systematic framework); Roland Barthes (semiotic foundations)	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Typ	Qualitative interpretive research approach	Method
Ursprungskälla	Rose, G. (2016). Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to Researching with Visual Materials (4th ed.). Sage. ISBN: 978-1473925038	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
Alias	visual hermeneutics, interpretive image analysis, IVA, hermeneutic visual analysis	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
Närliggande	6	2
Sammanfattning	Interpretive visual analysis is a qualitative approach that applies an interpretivist epistemological stance to the systematic examination of visual materials — photographs, film, artwork, diagrams, and other images. Rather than coding surface features, it treats images as socially situated texts whose meanings are constructed through cultural context, viewer positionality, and the conditions of production and circulation. The approach draws on hermeneutics, semiotics, and critical social theory to surface layered meanings that visual data carry.	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.