SRIKANT SARANGI is a

professor of Humanities and Medicine

at Aalborg University in Denmark. He is

also Director for the Danish Institute of

Humanities and Medicine / Health

(DIHMH), and was formerly a professor

and director of Health Communication

Research Centre at Cardiff University,

UK.

FACILITATOR’SProfile

Language/communication-based studies - concerned with talk, text and other modalities - have been carried out over the past four decades, both within quantitative and qualitative research paradigms. Within the qualitative paradigm, informed by their training and exposure, researchers adopt different methodological and analytical perspectives when engaging with talk data (e.g. interviews, naturally recorded encounters) and text data (e.g. questionnaires, documents, websites).

The workshop begins with a conceptualisation of language as action which is embedded in situated activity systems governed by sociocultural norms. This is followed by a broad characterisation of assumptions and practices underpinning quantitative and qualitative approaches to research. It then goes on to suggest that ‘engaging qualitatively with data’ should, among other things, include: the nature of data itself, accountability to data corpus and participants; and the activity of interpretation, i.e. descriptive adequacy in terms of coding/categorisation practices as well as evidence-based claim-making. The session will be primarily devoted to understanding, applying and critically evaluating a set of key analytical tools that intersects the boundaries across frameworks and modalities and affords dissemination at both practical and disciplinary levels. Participants are encouraged to bring their own data-driven analytic insights as a baseline for an ‘engaging’ dialogue.

DISCOURSEDISCOURSEWorkshop on

Action, Activity and Accountability:Engaging Qualitatively with Text / Talk Data

Date :

24 MAY 2014

Venue :

Razak Tower, Jalan SemarakUniversiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur

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8.00am - 8.30am : Registration8.30am - 4.30pm : Workshop

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WORKSHOP ON DISCOURSE (Action, activity and accountability: Engaging qualitatively with text/talk data)

24 May 2014Razak Tower, Jalan Semarak, UTM Kuala Lumpur

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