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	Longitudinal Hermeneutic Analysis	Discourse Analysis
Ämnesområde	Fältmetoder	Kvalitativ forskning
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Ursprungsår	1960s–1980s (hermeneutic tradition); longitudinal application consolidated late 20th century	1989 (Fairclough); 1987 (Potter & Wetherell)
Upphovsperson	Hans-Georg Gadamer (hermeneutic foundation); extended by Paul Ricoeur and longitudinal qualitative researchers	Norman Fairclough; Jonathan Potter and Margaret Wetherell
Typ	Qualitative interpretive research design	Method
Ursprungskälla	Gadamer, H.-G. (1975). Truth and Method (G. Barden & J. Cumming, Trans.). Seabury Press. (Original work published 1960) ISBN: 978-0826400369	Fairclough, N. (1989). Language and power. Longman.
Alias	longitudinal interpretive analysis, repeated hermeneutic inquiry, diachronic hermeneutics, temporal hermeneutic study	DA, Critical Discourse Analysis, Discursive Analysis
Närliggande	4	2
Sammanfattning	Longitudinal hermeneutic analysis combines the interpretive depth of hermeneutics with repeated data collection across time, tracing how meanings, understandings, and interpretations evolve within individuals, texts, or communities. Rooted in Gadamerian and Ricoeurian hermeneutics, this approach treats meaning as temporally situated and subject to revision, making it particularly valuable in humanities and social science research that seeks to understand change in lived interpretation over months or years.	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.