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Peer reviewedFrohmann, Bernd – Library and Information Science Research, 1994
Describes discourse analysis as practiced by Michel Foucault and his followers as a research method in library and information science. The method is introduced, some examples of its use are suggested, and several research questions are posed. The method permits analysis of the ways information, its uses, and its users are discursively…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Information Science, Interdisciplinary Approach, Library Research
