Introducing Communication Research: Paths of Inquiry
Fourth Edition
Learning Objectives
This chapter will help you:
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the qualitative analyses of content.
- Explain, with examples,
- the main types of rhetorical analysis;
- narrative, metaphor, and discourse analyses;
- semiotic analysis; and
- critical analyses and the assumptions underlying them.
- Describe the basic concepts and coding used in conversation analysis.