tankeanalys

English translation: thorough consideration

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Swedish term or phrase:tankeanalys
English translation:thorough consideration
Entered by: Charles Ek

18:16 Jun 27, 2012
Swedish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Psychology
Swedish term or phrase: tankeanalys
From a response to a survey about medical equipment: "Det finns alltid saker som kan förbättras, men det kan jag bara peka på efter en tankeanalys."

You'll make my day if you can answer this without reverting to any fancy philosophical/philological/Franco-philosophical Foucaultian fol-de-rol. But if you absolutely have to draw contrasts to "discursive analysis" and the like, please be gentle on my tired synapses.
Charles Ek
United States
Local time: 20:57
thorough consideration
Explanation:
It's very tempting to get into Foucaultian fol-de-rol, but it really seems from the context you have given that this is simply a complicated way of saying "I'd have to think about it more before I could give you a meaningful answer".
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JaneD
Sweden
Local time: 03:57
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2thorough consideration
JaneD
4giving thoughtful analysis
Michele Fauble
3critical thinking
liz askew
3reflection
lena helson
Summary of reference entries provided
discourse analysis rather discursive
liz askew

  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
giving thoughtful analysis


Explanation:
Surely this is what is meant.

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Note added at 6 mins (2012-06-27 18:23:01 GMT)
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or just 'after thoughtful analysis'

Michele Fauble
United States
Local time: 18:57
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks, Michele. I had something like that in mind already, but then I found some philo-fol-de-rol that gave me pause. I'll wait a bit longer to see what comes over the transom on this one.

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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
thorough consideration


Explanation:
It's very tempting to get into Foucaultian fol-de-rol, but it really seems from the context you have given that this is simply a complicated way of saying "I'd have to think about it more before I could give you a meaningful answer".

JaneD
Sweden
Local time: 03:57
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 7
Notes to answerer
Asker: Also a good suggestion. Thanks!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Helen Johnson
10 hrs
  -> Thanks Helen

agree  Christopher Schröder: I'd have to think about it
23 hrs
  -> Thanks Chris
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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
critical thinking


Explanation:
,,

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:57
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
reflection


Explanation:
maybe

lena helson
Local time: 02:57
Native speaker of: Native in SwedishSwedish, Native in EnglishEnglish
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Reference comments


12 mins
Reference: discourse analysis rather discursive

Reference information:
lnu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/.../FULLTEXT01 - Translate this page
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by U Lundin - 2007 - Related articles
4 jan 2007 – Foucault säger att det som skiljer mellan tankeanalys och diskursanalys är att i den förstnämnda undersöks vad som sagts i det som sades, .
Foucauldian Discourse Analysis : SAGE Research Methods
www.srmo.sagepub.com/view/the-sage-handbook-of...in.../n6.x...
We are not interested in policing boundaries of what ought to constitute discourse analysis, nor divining what Foucault really meant by discourse. Nonetheless ...


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Note added at 15 mins (2012-06-27 18:31:44 GMT)
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https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:s5Mr2TqVO2sJ:epri...

Discourse analysis versus critical discourse analysis

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Note added at 21 mins (2012-06-27 18:37:39 GMT)
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The other idea I have relates to "critical thinking":

Maturity and Modernity: Nietzsche, Weber, Foucault, and the ...
books.google.co.uk/books/about/Maturity_and_Modernity.html?id...... Weber and Foucault as a distinct trajectory of critical thinking within modern ... to the analysis of how we have become what we are and the implication which ...

liz askew
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Note to reference poster
Asker: Oh, I've been down a "discursive" rabbit hole already, after an initial jaunt down that path trod by Lundin: http://tinyurl.com/6tax3ht. :-)


Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
neutral  Michele Fauble: This is not what the Swedish means in the context.
29 mins
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