Interpretive Communicative Action Theory: Narratives of Personal Experience, Listening, and Understanding

Author: Norman K. Denzin (USA)
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book is suitable for humanities and social science scholars who intend to conduct research using interpretive methods, as well as graduate students who want to understand interpretive methods or are willing to adopt them for their theses. Interpretation: A behavior that lays the foundation for understanding. It can be emotional, cognitive, or false, aesthetic. Interpretation can be categorized as: superficial, deep, participant, observer, analytical, monological, dialogical, polyphonic, situational description, and relational interaction.
Encountering the Self: A moment when an individual faces a problem and reveals their personality traits. This moment often signifies a turning point in their life and includes four types: significant self-encountering, illuminating small self-encounters, cumulative epiphoric self-encounters, and post-event epiphoric self-encounters.
Interpretive Communicative Actionism: Expressing opinions to reveal and convey the meaning of various symbolic communicative actions, tending to use a discourse mode that is free from any preconceived concepts. Its foundation is derived from firsthand concepts extracted from lived experiences (narratives).