The text in the discursive textual analysis: a hermeneutic reading of the “a light storm”

Abstract

This paper aims at understanding what “text” means in the qualitative methodology called Discursive Textual Analysis (DTA). It is an exercise with phenomenological and hermeneutical characteristics, i. e., it describes and interprets the textual character of the DTA. The text entitled “A light storm: understanding enabled by the Discursive Textual Analysis”, a milestone in the development of the DTA, was chosen to be the corpus of analysis. The DTA is used to analyze it and identify traces of a text that employs this methodology. Approximations with Hans-Georg Gadamer’s ideas and his contributions to text and interpretation are also introduced. A text is understood as a hermeneutic concept of researchers’ descriptive and interpretive experiences as translators. The paper also shows the task enabled by the DTA as an opportunity the researcher has to learn about a phenomenon while they ontologically change themselves as the result of world texts.

 Keywords: Discursive Textual Analysis; Text, Hermeneutics.