title: Nursing scholars appropriating new methods: the use of discourse analysis in scholarly nursing journals 1996-2003.
abstract: Nursing scholars appropriate the analysis of discourse. "Discourse analysis" covers a wide spectrum of approaches to analysing meaning and language and there is no widely accepted definition of either a concept or an analysis of discourse. A sample of the discourse analyses indexed in the CINAHL database was analysed in order to identify what notions of discourse and discourse analysis are preferred by nursing scholars. The results showed that nursing scholars prefer approaches to discourse that resemble mainstream qualitative research avoiding social life and interaction. Explanations for these findings are briefly outlined.
authors.affiliation: The University of Southern Denmark and The Centre for Innovation in Nursing Education in the County of Aarhus, Olaf Palmes Alle 17, I 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark. n_buus@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Niels
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Buus
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D015982:Bias; D003142:Communication; D003625:Data Collection; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D006801:Humans; D008037:Linguistics; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010687:Philosophy, Nursing; D033302:Postmodernism; D036301:Qualitative Research; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012107:Research Design / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000523:psychology; D012919:Social Behavior; D012962:Sociology, Medical; D013561:Symbolism; D013850:Thinking