Communicative and Linguistic Method of a Narrative Text Analysis

The article aims at presenting a method rooted in philological science in order to analyze freeform interviews with elements of narration. The method presented is a compilation of two methods: communicative grammar and narratology. Both of the aforementioned methods were created in order to analyse narrative texts. In the case of the former method, the discipline in which particular texts were created is of no importance. The latter method, on the other hand, is used mainly for literary analyses. The communicative grammar method originated from Polish linguistics, provides a possibility of conducting in-depth linguistic analyses. When used for interview analyses, communicative grammar may help a researcher overcome their subjective approach and get, as close as possible, to the contents uttered by a respondent indirectly. Application of the discussed method also facilitates the process of overcoming cultural differences between a researcher and a respondent. The article presents methodological assumptions of both discussed methods as well as different ways of using the methods for analysis of interviews conducted from the perspective of social sciences