Tag: Language

February 22, 2020 Review to “What is a Text? Explanation and Understanding” (Ricoeur, 1971)

The French Philosopher Paul Ricoeur examines a few important issues in his thoughtful essay regarding our everyday use of the terms, speech, language, understanding, explanation, and interpretation. This essay brings a good understanding of a text in qualitative research. In most cases in textual analysis, there is the use of texts as data for description and interpretation. Most of the textual materials are written texts of oral speaking like interviews or observations. In understanding what has been said and observed, we use text to provide evidence of people’s thinking, acting or beliefs among others.

October 25, 2011 Language, Integration, and Migration: An interpretive analysis of an experts’ panel discussion

The findings presented in this paper are based on a qualitative, interpretive analysis of an experts’ panel discussion that took…

June 14, 2011 Between Illusion and Authenticity in the Integration Debate: A Critical Reflection of the German Debate on Integration, Language, and Migration

Without reproducing the whole controversy on issues like integration, language, and migration in the German host society in the paper…