[DATAGOV Core] Suggestions for document/discourse analysis

[Sruthi Vanguri]

Thanks Giulia for the references!

I have referred to Bowen and Fairclough in my pilot study and have added the PDFs on Zotero I was writing it.

My pilot study was more document analysis, but I want to go a bit deeper and look at the discourses around DPI within these policy texts. Hence on the look out for additional references and especially software suggestions :)

Best regards,
Sruthi

From: Core <core-bounces at lists.datagovlab.net> on behalf of Giulia Campaioli via Core <core at lists.datagovlab.net>
Date: Wednesday, 28 October 2026 at 14:47
To: core at lists.datagovlab.net <core at lists.datagovlab.net>
Subject: Re: [DATAGOV Core] Suggestions for document/discourse analysis

Hi Sruthi,

Thanks for sharing your references for discourse analysis. Really interesting! How did this topic come up? I may have lost a piece at the last meeting.

Anyway, do you have the pdf by any chance? If so, would be wonderful to add it to our Zotero library.

I added there my list of references for discourse analysis. I don't use it so much lately, but I have referred to Wetherell, Edley and Potter, so I added some of their articles even though they are not topic-related (but they are wonderful examples of methodological paper on discourse analysis grounded on an empirical case). I also found Saldana's manual for qualitative coding very useful in the past.

Best,
G




On 28/10/2026 14:03, Sruthi Vanguri via Core wrote:
Hi team,

My corpus, at least for now, comprises of policy documents.

And these are the references I am familiar with for qualitative analysis:


  *
Document Analysis as a Qualitative Research Method (Bowen, 2009)
  *
Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research (Fairclough, 2003)

Are there any more fundamental references you would recommend for document/discourse analysis?

Also, would you recommend any software packages for document analysis like NVivo and ATLAS.ti? So far, I have always read, coded and analysed my documents manually, without softwares or LLMs. But I would love learn and familiarise myself with useful tools.

Thank you!

Best regards,
Sruthi







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