Use of the QDA miner lite software program in research with the discursive textual analysis

Abstract

In the development of research, data analysis can be considered the most exhaustive and the most important stage in the production and dissemination of new knowledge. This work describes how the QDA Miner Lite was used to analyze data from two different works. In both cases, the analysis was constituted by deconstruction of the corpus, unitarization and categorization — methodological stages of the Discursive Textual Analysis. The study is characterized as qualitative and documentary research. The discussions pointed out the contributions of the software, which, combined with the Discursive Textual Analysis methodology, indicated an improvement in the quality of the investigations and positive assistance in the interpretations of the constituted data. The study made it clear that the software does not imply the exclusion of the researcher in the analysis process, but that its use refines the organization of the work, providing a more consistent understanding of what is being investigated.

Keywords: Discursive Textual Analysis; Qualitative Research; Analysis Software; QDA Miner Lite.