Methodology versus scholarship?: Overcoming the divide in analysing identity narratives of people with cancer

Journal of Language and Politics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 289-309

  Seale, Clive ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collective identity; Computer software; Content analysis; Discourse analysis; Narrative analysis; Quantitative and qualitative

Indexed keywords

EID: 33044496107     PISSN: 15692159     EISSN: 15699862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.2.2.06sea     Document Type: Article

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