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  1. Literary analysis is at the core of this subject and refers to the task of making meaning of a work of literature. According to Kusch, the analysis of literature entails a responsibility because, as “a public form of meaning-making”, it is “designed to contribute to a community of knowledge about literature

  2. This section addresses practical dimensions of mixed methods and includes a chapter about how to evaluate the quality of a mixed method publication and suggests approaches to designing a mixed method research proposal or dissertation.

    • Elizabeth G. Creamer
  3. Jan 1, 1997 · Two different approaches to the definition of literature (criterial and prototypical) are described, and some features of a prototypical literary work are outlined.

  4. discourse analysis, semiotics and dialogic criticism, in one way or the other emphasize the study of the language of literature in order to understand its meaning and relish it.

    • Example 8a: Epistemology and Discourse Analysis of A Database with NVivo Coding
    • Example 8b: Rural Women and Work in A South Asian Context
    • Example 8c: Discourses of Sri Lankan Banking Using NVivo Coding Across Genres

    While conducting a recent study in northern India, I engaged in re-analysing my own one-to-one interviews carried out in a South Indian village in 2007 (see also Neff, PhD 2009; and full fuzzy-set analysis in Olsen 2009a, chapter in Byrne and Ragin, eds., 2009). Here I summarise the background, research question, and research design for this mixed-...

    Example 8B Context and Research Design: In 2014–6 I was part of a project leading teams into rural Bangladesh and rural north central India. Our 41 Bangla and 45 Hindi semi-structured interview transcripts from 2016 were complemented by surveys based on random samples in each of 15 villages, carefully chosen over eastern Uttar Pradesh, northwestern...

    Example 8C, Context and Research Design: I have carried out detailed studies of micro-finance in localised rural areas: once in highland Sri Lanka, using interviews and a random-sample-based questionnaire survey; and again in southern India’s Andhra Pradesh, again with interviews and a survey. By 1995, the Sri Lankan government had begun to commerc...

  5. Fiction: A literary work whose content is based on the imagination and not on fact. Glossary: An alphabetical listing of difficult, technical, or foreign terms with definitions or translation; usually found at the end of a book.

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  7. Literary Techniques are specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey meaning. An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases. This is also called a figure of speech.