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Willig's six-stage Foucauldian discourse analysis

Foucauldian discourse analysis

Verbatim offers this as a guided flow: it names each step and maps it onto the real Verbatim tool that performs it, and reports — from your real artefacts only — which steps show evidence of completion. It is a procedural guide, never an automatic analysis: no theme is invented, nothing is auto-coded, and the reading and interpretation stay yours.

The six stages

1. Discursive constructions of the object
2. The wider discourses drawn on
3. Action orientation / function
4. Positionings / subject positions
5. Practice
6. Subjectivity

Reference: Willig, C. (2008), Introducing Qualitative Research in Psychology, 2nd ed., Open University Press / McGraw-Hill, ch. 7 — the six-stage Foucauldian discourse analysis (1. discursive constructions of the object -> 2. the wider discourses drawn on -> 3. action orientation / function -> 4. positionings / subject positions -> 5. practice -> 6. subjectivity), as tabulated by Sallan Gül & Kahya Nizam (2021), Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, p.190