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The reflexive approach uses a set of strategies developed from feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis (FPDA) that enable scholars to read newspaper articles ‘against the grain’, whatever their orientation. A reflexive approach aims to reveal an article’s version of reality by analysing the ways it guides readers to respond to the text. The approach combines both a poststructuralist ‘deconstructionist’ reading of a text to reveal deeper, discursive structures, and a supplementary ‘reconstructive’ approach to enable alternative, divergent readings and insights to emerge. I explain how the approach works on four levels: micro-linguistic, textual, representational and discoursal.
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Baxter, J. (2018). The Reflexive Approach: Principles and Methodology. In: Women Leaders and Gender Stereotyping in the UK Press. Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64328-1_4
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