Practical Guide to Mixed Methods Critical Discourse Analysis

Dr. Paul Saurette is a full professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, where he teaches and researches a wide variety of topics including MMCDA, ideology, rhetoric, political communication, conservative movements, the anti-abortion movement, international relations, public law, political ethics, and political philosophy more generally. Dr. Matthieu Grandpierron is an associate professor of international relations and head of the political science department at ICES, France, where he teaches and researches on a wide variety of topics in international relations and strategic studies.Robert Marinov is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication Studies at Concordia University with an MA and BA (summa cum laude) in Political Science from the University of Ottawa, where his SSHRC-funded thesis research won the Commission on Graduate Studies in Humanities Thesis Prize for developing a novel Mixed Method Critical Discourse Analysis (MMCDA) approach to studying “infotainment” in newspaper coverage of Canada’s 2019 federal election.  Dr. Kelly Gordon is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at McGill University, where she teaches a wide variety of topics including qualitative methods, feminist theory, gender and politics, conservative movements, and Canadian politics.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: How to Use this Book.- PART I: Why Great Powers go to War: A Deep Dive into Designing, Conducting and Communicating MMCDA Research.- Chapter 2: Identifying and Confirming Research Questions, Methods, and Datasets.- Chapter 3: Building the Analytic Toolkit: Constructing the Codebook.- Chapter 4: Coding the Dataset.- Chapter 5: Conducting the Macro-Analysis, Identifying the Key Findings, Telling the Overall Story.- PART II: Additional Lessons for MMCDA Research.- Chapter 6: Using MMCDA to Compare Anti-Abortion Discourse in Canada and the United States.- Chapter 7: Using MMCDA to Measure Infotainment in Canadian Political News Coverage.- PART III: The Future of MMCDA?.- PART III: The Future of M8. Concluding Reflections: AI and the Future of MMCDA 93MCDA?.