Interpretive Communicative Action Theory: Narrative of Personal Experiences, Listening and Understanding (2nd Edition)

Author: Norman K. Denzin
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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 even illusory or aesthetic. Interpretation can be categorized into: 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-encounters, revelatory small self-encounters, accumulative 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 pre-existing conceptual influence. Its foundation is based on firsthand concepts derived from lived experiences (narratives).