Discursive Textual Analysis in practice

reflections on the five main questions of students

Abstract

The essay presents reflections upon the method of Discursive Textual Analysis by means of ordinary questions made by academics in classes taught by the authors of the text. There are five highlighted main questions made by the students involved in the analytic method in different formative levels. They are i) I want to use Discursive Textual Analysis… How do I begin?; ii) From the same corpus of analysis could different researchers obtain the same results and conclusions?; iii) Which are the validation criteria employed in Discursive Textual Analysis?; iv) What are the unifying arguments in Discursive Textual Analysis?; and last v) What does the self-organized process in Discursive Textual Analysis mean? The central argument, which organizes the text, is “frequent students’ questions, from different formative levels, asked during classes unleash a collective study movement, dialogic and reflexive, which could conduct to an understanding gradually profound of the analytic process at hand in face of the Discursive Textual Analysis”. The strategy of the writing of the text is to leave it open to other questions expecting that the continuity of the study could enhance new understandings and, why not, new doubts about the Discursive Textual Analysis.