№ 5 - 2011
Teterin A.Ye.
Application of Qualitative Methods in Political-Science Research (with N.Fairclough’s Critical Discourse-Analysis as Example)

Qualitative methods are ever wider adopted in political science. The fact may be explained by distinctive features both of the qualitative paradigm and of the object of political science – political reality. One of the methods of the qualitative paradigm that has received wide recognition, is media-political discourse-analysis. Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of critical discourse-analysis helps to avoid some typical mistakes of a discource researcher. Illustrated (as example) with Internet-media analysis of a communication, this model demonstrates its own wide research potential extending far beyond the limits of concrete discourse practice.