The Synchronic-Diachronic Method for the Linguistic Analysis of Texts and its extensions: A methodological proposal from Latin America

Abstract

From the interpretativist paradigm (Guba & Lincoln 1998), using CDA in one of its Latin American currents as a theoretical framework (Resende & Ramalho 2006; Silva 2007; Pardo Abril 2007; Montecino 2010) and applying a qualitative and inductive methodology (Pardo 2011, 2015), three analytical perspectives are presented to: a) study language in use, and b) reflect on social prob-lems based on this study. These perspectives are the Synchronic-Diachronic Method for the Linguistic Analysis of Texts, developed by María Laura Pardo and expanded by Mariana C. Marchese through the Method of Convergent Linguistic Approaches for CDA and by Matías Soich through the Theory of Conceptual Metaphor. From the analysis of digital comments, we illustrate how these three perspectives allow an analysis that can categorize discourses and connect the resulting categories with discursive representations, in order to make social reflections based on concrete data.