Table 3 Steps of a pragmatic phenomenological analysis

Word by word transcription of recordings (verbatim)

A reading using a floating attention, followed by a focussed reading

Extracting signifying units from the text and grouping these units by themes

Collating textual and contextual meaningful semiotic elements and their semio-pragmatic characterisation

A first categorisation through a regrouping of these semiotic elements and of the signifying units in accordance with the research question

Enriching the categories by continuing comparison until theoretical saturation is reached

Placing the emerging categories in logical order and reducing them and their properties in order to model the ensemble in integrative semio-pragmatic statements