The "Mondada technique" is a method of discourse analysis that emphasizes the sequential and multimodal analysis of social interaction. This technique broadens the definition of discourse to encompass communicative action that moves beyond linguistic communication and specifically includes multimodal actions. Scholars utilizing this approach employ discourse analysis-informed transcription, often drawing on and expanding conventions from the Jeffersonian system, to account for embodied forms of expression. The focus is on analyzing embodied interactional resources such, as the physical use of space and bodily gestures.

Mondada Technique

This study innovatively combined DSE frameworks with DP approaches. Jefferson and Mondada techniques captured environmental factors usually ignored. This mixing raised questions about DP's compatibility with other methods.

State University of New York at Binghamton

- Discursive Psychology as a "Sensitizing Frame"
- Multimodal Discourse
- Post-Critical Ethnography
- Methodological Synthesis
- Field Notes Limitation

Research Design and Methods: The study's methodological approach, innovations, and constraints

Lester, J. N. (Ed.). (2021). Discursive Psychology and Disability. Palgrave Studies in Discursive Psychology. Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Reference For: Discursive Psychology and Disability

Reliance on field notes vs. audio/video recordings limited DP analysis. Researchers couldn't repeatedly listen to interactions as is typical. Data became researcher constructions rather than objective records.

Field Notes Limitation

DP views thinking/learning as socially constructed through interactions, not internal cognition. It was used as a "sensitizing frame" rather than standalone method. This perspective challenged cognitivist competency notions.

Discursive Psychology (DP) as a "Sensitizing Frame"

The study defined discourse broadly beyond language. Gestures, eye gaze, spatial positioning counted as valid communicative actions. This captured non-linguistic ways students expressed themselves.

Multimodal Discourse

This is a three-year study in a Southeastern US separate school setting. Used constant comparative analysis with multiple data sources (field notes, interviews, artifacts). Combined macro thematic and micro discourse approaches.

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