The use of the technique of Content Analysis in a Research Practice carried out by the Language Teacher of the UNSL

Abstract

The present study deals with a qualitative research practice in which the Content Analysis technique was used to investigate the Mapuche textile iconography in the context of the textile traditions of the Andean strip of Our America. The problem that was sought to be investigated was developed in different levels of analysis focusing on searching, as a general study objective, the meanings that underlie the Mapuche textile icons in the context of the textile tradition of the Andean strip of Our America. Our theoretical framework for the study of textiles refers, first, to the theory of enunciation in general terms, developed by Émile Benveniste (1974) and specifically in the analysis of axiological subjectivemas posed by Catherine Kerbrat Orecchioni (1986). At the same time, the developments of sociolinguistics, including the approaches of John Lyons (1997), allow us to understand the textiles we study in their creation context. Regarding the epistemological framework, the concepts expressed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos (2009) in their so-called Epistemology of the South allow us to place our analysis in the context of that knowledge produced from other knowledge, emerging in the so-called border epistemology, as expressed by Walter Mignolo (2002).