ABSTRACT

Involving participants/intended audiences in discourse analysis may help to avoid overemphasising the structural effects of discourse and silencing participant voice. Yet, involving participants in complex analytic processes effectively can prove difficult. In this study, the authors undertook a Foucauldian discourse analysis of sexual consent material within eight (predominantly UK) wide-ranging, youth-focused campaigns to identify the discourses relevant to sexual consent and produce a collage for each discourse. Then, 43 young people from West Yorkshire, UK, helped to identify the underlying messages in the collages (i.e. the discourses), and consider who was constructed as powerful, and who benefited and ‘lost out’ from these messages. This paper explores the benefits and challenges of involving young people in a discourse analysis in this way, and concludes that, a ‘both/and’ approach should be employed to acknowledge both young people’s perspectives and the academic researcher’s desire to retain a critical stance toward problematic discourses.

摘要

让参与者/目标受众参与话语分析可能有助于避免过分强调话语的结构效应和沉默参与者的声音。然而，让参与者有效地参与复杂的分析过程可能会很困难。在这项研究中，作者对八项（主要是英国）范围广泛、以青年为中心的活动中的性同意材料进行了福柯式话语分析，以确定与性同意相关的话语并为每个话语制作拼贴画。然后，来自英国西约克郡的 43 名年轻人帮助识别拼贴画（即话语）中的潜在信息，并考虑谁被构建为强大的，谁从这些信息中受益和“失去”。本文探讨了以这种方式让年轻人参与话语分析的好处和挑战，