ATLAS.ti for conversation and discourse analysis studies
ATLAS.ti for conversation and discourse analysis studies
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DOI：
10.1080/13645579.2015.1021949
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发表时间：
2016-01-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Lester, Jessica Nina
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作者：
Paulus, Trena M.;Lester, Jessica Nina
计算机辅助定性数据分析软件（CAQDAS）的使用并非没有争议，许多学者对其采用普遍存在怀疑和抵制。尤其是基于语言的研究人员，例如对话和话语分析师，在接受此类工具进行工作方面进展缓慢。在本文中，我们说明了我们如何使用ATLAS.ti来支持我们自己的会话和话语分析工作，以展示如何利用这样的工具来完成九个分析任务。我们描述的任务和功能包括，除其他外，转录和同步与媒体文件的成绩单，通过创建报价从事无动机的寻找，并通过编写备忘录进行密切的逐行分析。我们举例说明了ATLAS.ti如何让我们以透明、自反、严格和系统的方式记录我们的分析决策。我们也注意到该软件的局限性，例如缺乏实时协作支持以及视频和在线交互数据分析所固有的挑战。我们认为，ATLAS.ti不是从研究人员手中夺走控制权，而是使分析师能够解决一系列方法上的挑战，例如处理大型数据集，并支持比手动更深层次的分析。
The use of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) has not been without controversy, with a pervasive sense of skepticism and resistance towards its adoption by many scholars. Language-based researchers in particular, such as conversation and discourse analysts, have been slow to embrace such tools for their work. In this paper we illustrate how we have used ATLAS.ti to support our own conversation and discourse analysis work, in order to demonstrate how such a tool can be leveraged to complete nine analytic tasks. Tasks and features we describe include, among others, transcribing and synchronizing transcripts with media files, engaging in unmotivated looking through creating quotations, and conducting a close, line by line analysis through writing memos. We illustrate how ATLAS.ti has allowed us to document our analytic decisions in a transparent, reflexive, rigorous and systematic way. We note, too, limitations of the software such as a lack of real-time collaboration support and challenges inherent to the analysis of video and online interactional data. Rather than taking control away from the researcher, we argue that ATLAS.ti enables the analyst to solve a range of methodological challenges, such as working with large data-sets and supporting deeper levels of analysis than is possible by hand.