CAn Any one say What are the major differences between narrative analysis and discourse analysis ?

Question

CAn Any one say What are the major differences between narrative analysis and discourse analysis ?

Answer 1

narrative analysis = reporting in the PO voice (usually supporting your thesis with narrative from your participants)

discourse analysis = doing PO or direct notes form of PO (a fancy term for raw PO work)

discourse analysis usually infers something also, narrative is more straightforward

i think

Answer 2

Narration is explaining what he/she wants to.............

and

Discourse is a sort of propagation what our priests do at churches   or  what a Politician do before the elections.

The first work may have some literal values

and the other is just a blob !

Answer 3

they are spelled differently

Answer 4

can anyone say "what are the major differences" between a kid who's worked hard to complete his homework, and a cheater?

Answer 5

***Narrative analysis is analysis of a chronologically told story, with a focus on how elements are sequenced, why some elements are evaluated differently from others, how the past shapes perceptions of the present, how the present shapes perceptions of the past, and how both shape perceptions of the future. Narrative analysis is seen as a more in-depth alternative to survey research using psychological scales. Some advocates see it as an "empowering" social science methodology insofar as it gives respondents the venue to articulate their own viewpoints and evaluative standards.

***Narrative analysis is best used for exploratory purposes, sensitizing the researcher, illustrating but not by itself validating theory. A common focus is the exploration of ethical, moral, and cultural ambiguities.

***Discourse analysis does not presuppose a bias towards the study of either spoken or written language. In fact, the monolithic character of the categories of speech and writing is has been widely challenged, especially as the gaze of analysts turns to multi-media texts and practices on the Internet. Similarly, one must ultimately object to the reduction of the discursive to the so-called "outer layer" of language use, although such a reduction reveals quite a lot about how particular versions of the discursive have been both enabled and bracketed by forms of hierarchical reasoning which are specific to the history of linguistics as a discipline (e.g. discourse analysis as a reaction against and as taking enquiry beyond the clause-bound "objects" of grammar and semantics to the level of analysing "utterances", "texts" and "speech events").