University of South-Eastern Norway
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Asked 5 July 2021
Differences between narrative analysis and thematic analysis?
Would you please clear me how I can do the narrative analysis based on the transcripts of in-depth interviews?
I actually collected the narratives of participants, can I now conduct thematic analysis? if so, what is the name of such analysis?
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One presentation of Narrative analysis that I have found very helpful is Professor Mona Baker's lecture "Narrative Analysis: Translation as Renarration". This is just an introduction that is expanded in her written work, but it gives an overview of the strand of narrative method that she represents.
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Parthenope University of Naples
Dear Dr. Tauhid Hossain Khan,
I believe that nowadays, interacting between narrative analysis and thematic analysis implies knowing how to fit perfectly with the experience and the meaning of life experienced as a special and motivated fact in our case on a literary level. It is about interacting in the first person, where "Time" plays its important role, not only because of the importance we give to "information", but also because of the approach that is already being given to the "New Social Phenomenon" that we are living.
Both analyzes interact, Dear.Dr .Tauhid Hossain Khan, they are not divided.
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Portland State University
Thematic Analysis is just what it sounds like -- a search for themes in the data. The most common reference for TA is Braun & Clarke (2006), and those authors maintain a website on this method at: https://www.psych.auckland.ac.nz/en/about/thematic-analysis.html
In contrast, there are many different forms of narrative analysis, so it would help if you have selected a particular approach to narrative.
(Note that in the Frequently Asked Questions section of their web page, Braun & Clarke emphasize that TA is about what people, as opposed to how people say things, which they associate with "some forms of narrative analysis.")
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Parthenope University of Naples
Dear Dr. Tauhid Hossain Khan,
I believe that nowadays, interacting between narrative analysis and thematic analysis implies knowing how to fit perfectly with the experience and the meaning of life experienced as a special and motivated fact in our case on a literary level. It is about interacting in the first person, where "Time" plays its important role, not only because of the importance we give to "information", but also because of the approach that is already being given to the "New Social Phenomenon" that we are living.
Both analyzes interact, Dear.Dr .Tauhid Hossain Khan, they are not divided.
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Bar Ilan University
Tauhid,
One way of looking at this (and not the only way these terms are used), is that thematic analysis often looks for themes across respondents in the sample. Narrative analysis can be done within one respondent, searching for ways that the individual constructs his or her narrative. Thus a thematic analysis often searches for common themes across respondents, that can be "taken out" of a lengthy interview, and analyzed without necessarily looking at the issue within the whole context of the interview. Narrative analysis would often (not always) be interested in how any issue is framed within the larger interview (somewhat idiographically). But please be aware that this not the only way these terms are used. You have to decide what approach fits better within your research objectives.
Good luck.
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Dear Tauhid,
You ask for "any article or dissertation as an example of narrative analysis".
In an earlier post, I attached the BNIM3 Quick Outline Sketch. In that document, there is a Bibliography with references to a whole number of available writings relating to 'interpretations' (case-studies) based on data derived from BNIM-style 'biographic-narrative interviews'.
I attach just one long 'example' written by myself (and I therefore know I have permission to send it!). I would look at the 'commented bibliography' and find one that seems to be of a topic/type of person that interests you....Lola might very well not be the most interesting....
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Bar Ilan University
Tauhid,
Here's an example of mine regarding idiographic narrative analysis.
I hope it helps.
Elli
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University of Mosul
@Tauhid Hossain Khan
Narrative analysis is mythodologybuilt on epistemological and ontological assumptions .Whereas thematic analysis is a tool to decipher data and break down them into themes within different research perspectives.
Narrative analysis involves how a story is told or written. Thematic analysis is looking for recurring ideas, points of view, theories within the structure of the narrative. Take for example the novel of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov we could analysis different characteristics of the narrative such as the narrator's voice, the novel's structure, how it's divided, its length, the use of a foreword and afterword for example. We could evaluate such variables without considering the book's themes of child sexual abuse, contrasts between home and on the road, paedophilia, growing old, trauma, the USA of post world war two. There are many themes that can be evidenced within the narrative that are open to analysis and interpretation. The narrative analysis looks at the concrete elements that build up the story and the thematic searches for the ideas and philosophies or themes flowing through the text. We need both forms of analysis to reach a better understanding of the novel in question.
University of South-Eastern Norway
One presentation of Narrative analysis that I have found very helpful is Professor Mona Baker's lecture "Narrative Analysis: Translation as Renarration". This is just an introduction that is expanded in her written work, but it gives an overview of the strand of narrative method that she represents.
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