Abstract
Discourse analysis is a methodology, focuses on the sociocultural and political context in which text and narrative occur. This paper was to introduce Foucaults discourse analysis as a methodology and to inspire the related researches in nursing. It delineated the discourse theory, and major concepts, the discourse analysis, and analysed the typology of the related nursing researches. There were two typed researches: Some papers revealed and explained the state of nursing as a disciplinary used Foucault's theoretical concepts, and persuaded the usefulness of discourse analytic approach. And others employed the discourse analysis as methodology, collected and analysed the data according it's method. The products of the discourse analytic approach in nursing could support the methodological pluralism and it's inevitability. Those could reveal the effects of dominant discourse (traditional science, medicine, administration, sexism and professionalism) to the nursing a through the mechanism of the oppression and restriction, and suggest the new vision for nursing to construct the resistant discourse. This methodology had s이ne limitations as other qualitative methodologies and postmodernist theories. When nursing researchers understand the methodological characteristics of discourse analysis, it could be used to construct the fruitful nursing knowledge body.
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