Table 1 Word for word exploration, example of découpage
Transcript (excerpt) | Words to be coded | Descriptive units |
|---|---|---|
Interviewer: What exactly is it that is complicated? | ||
 Woman: I have the impression that people look at my hands, they are strange, these hands...so I tend to hide them. | I have the impression | Have the impression |
People are looking at my hands | Looking at my hands | |
they are strange, these hands | Strange hands | |
So I tend | Tend | |
To hide them | Hide my hands | |
Interviewer: I don’t understand, I’m sorry, you hide your hands because who is looking at them? | ||
 Woman: The people at work look at my hands | The people at work | colleagues |
look at my hand | Looking at my hands | |
Interviewer: The people at work in general or some people in particular? | ||
 Woman: Wait, I’m thinking, it’s more the women, finally I’m more often with women too, yes, it’s more the women | Wait | Wait |
I’m thinking | thinking | |
it’s more the women | more the women | |
finally I’m more often with the women too | Environment of women | |
it’s more the women, yes | More the women | |
Interviewer: It’s different for you, that is, the gaze of another woman or of a man — you’re going to experience them differently? | ||
 Woman: Yes, yes I’m realizing that now, but it’s totally crazy, it’s that the women looking at me is going to bother me more, is going to be more ...be more… | Yes, yes I’m just now realizing it | Understand |
now | now | |
but it’s completely crazy | ridiculous | |
It’s that a woman looking at me | Women looking | |
bother me more | be bothered | |
is more … be more … | More the women | |
Interviewer: More? | ||
 Woman: I’m going to be more sensitive… but I don’t know why. You have the answer, because I don’t. | I’m going to be more sensitive | Hesitation |
but I don’t know why | be more sensitive to it | |
You have the response | Not know why | |
because I don’t | You have the response | |
| Â | Not know why | |
Interviewer: No I don’t know either, you’re a woman yourself…. | ||
 Woman: I have always had the impression that women observe more than men… or else, yeah, I have the impression that the women stare at me much more than men do. | I’ve always had the impression | Have the impression |
that women observe more than men… | Women observe more | |
or else | Or else | |
yeah I have the impression that | Have the impression | |
the women stare at me much more than the men stare at me | More the women Be stared at | |