Discourse analysis: a methodological perspective for health researchers
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Discourse is something else that language in oral or text forms, it ́s how language is used in social contexts. This narrative review of Discourse Analysis (DA), which comes from social sciences disciplines to approach language as a communicative event embedded in social context where human interactions occurred. In this sense, DA explores the relationships between texts and reality making visible the discourses, their start point, their flow and everything else that goes with them. There is a variety of theoretical perspectives which providing different approaches methods for analysis. Thus, DA is a rich methodological field for health sciences researchers because of the variety of discourses practices where language is emerged as part of the institutional health contexts in society.
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