This article examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: (1) Theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge; (2) One cannot generalize from a single case, therefore the single case study cannot contribute to scientific development; (3) The case study is most useful for generating hypotheses, while other methods are more suitable for hypotheses testing and theory building; (4) The case study contains a bias toward verification; and (5) It is often difficult to summarize specific case studies. The article explains and corrects these misunderstandings one by one and concludes with the Kuhnian insight that a scientific discipline without a large number of thoroughly executed case studies is a discipline without systematic production of exemplars, and that a discipline without exemplars is an ineffective one. Social science may be strengthened by the execution of more good case studies.

Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research

This article examines five common misunderstandings about case-study research: (a) theoretical knowledge is more valuable than practical knowledge; (b) one cannot generalize from a single case, therefore, the single-case study cannot contribute to scientific development; (c) the case study is most useful for generating hypotheses, whereas other methods are more suitable for hypotheses testing and theory building; (d) the case study contains a bias toward verification; and (e) it is often difficult to summarize specific case studies. This article explains and corrects these misunderstandings one by one and concludes with the Kuhnian insight that a scientific discipline without a large number of thoroughly executed case studies is a discipline without systematic production of exemplars, and a discipline without exemplars is an ineffective one. Social science may be strengthened by the execution of a greater number of good case studies.

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Part 1: Social Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Text Analysis 1. Introduction 2. Texts, Social Events, and Social Practices 3. Intertextuality and Assumptions Part 2: Genres and Action 4. Genres 5. Meaning Relations between Sentences and Clauses 6. Types of Exchange, Speech Functions, and Grammatical Mood Part 3: Discourses and Representations 7. Discourses 8. Representations of Social Events Part 4: Styles and Identities 9. Styles 10. Modality and Evaluation 11. Conclusion

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Analysing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research

The Wretched of the Earth

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Femmes imaginaires: l'Ancien Testament au risque d'une narratologie critique

Le titre de cette contribution constitue un retournement, ou une perversion, du titre du colloque pour lequel elle a ete concue. L'auteur retourne a une analyse anterieure de Genese 39, ainsi que de la version du Quran de la meme histoire telle que Thomas Mann l'avait prise comme source dans son roman "Joseph und seine Bruder". Le retour a ce travail anterieur sert a une prise de conscience des changements historiques de notre present. La ou, dans les annees quatre-vingt, la perspective feministe dictait une attention specialisee a la position de la femme de Potiphar comme sujet de desir, a l'epoque actuelle le choix du texte islamique dans un playdoyer implicite pour le droit des juifs a la difference prend un sens nouveau, pertinent pour l'idee d'une "identite litteraire".

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