# Discipline Skeleton -- Discourse Analysis

**Library:** Public RAM. **Authored by:** Epistemic Output Layer (S4). **Consumed by:** S4 at Phase D overlay.

Use when the invoked Librarian discipline is `discourse-analysis`. Discourse analysis examines how language constructs meaning, power, and social reality -- framing, subject positioning, presupposition, intertextuality. Attach the three-axis block per interpretive finding.

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## Native Skeleton (preserve)

1. **Research Question** -- interpretive: "How is X framed / constructed / positioned?"
2. **Corpus and Selection Logic** -- texts/speeches/media chosen; rationale is theoretical, not representative.
3. **Analytic Framework** -- critical discourse analysis (Fairclough), Foucauldian discourse analysis, conversation analysis, framing analysis, or other. Declared.
4. **Coding / Mapping Apparatus** -- framing devices, subject positions, presuppositions, lexical choices tracked.
5. **Findings** -- per discourse / frame / subject position. Worked examples with quoted excerpts.
6. **Intertextual and Contextual Connections** -- how the discourse connects to wider text traditions or material conditions.
7. **Researcher Reflexivity** -- analyst positionality and interpretive choices.
8. **Interpretation and Significance.**

## Overlay Hooks

- Each **discourse / frame finding** is a claim slot.
- Typical claim type: interpretive. Transportability slot: `reader_relevance_proxy` (CERQual-derived where applicable). MANDATORY `reader-judgment-required` caveat.
- R3.3 / Drisko-Lincoln-Guba contradiction applies: the finding's transport depends on the reader's judgment given context and thick description. The researcher does not claim transport.
- Surprise Register and Search Ledger render as top-level sections after Significance.
- Methodology trace: discourse-analysis tag, analytic framework named (Fairclough / Foucauldian / CA / framing / etc.), reflexivity statement preserved.

## Native elements that MUST survive overlay
- Analytic framework declaration.
- Worked examples with quoted excerpts.
- Researcher Reflexivity.

Discourse findings are constructivist by nature. Do NOT render transportability as an objective score; the `reader-judgment-required` caveat and the CERQual relevance sub-score carry the correct epistemic posture.
