“The conventional notion of validity in psychological research assumes that the goal of research is to produce findings that match as closely as possible the real state of the world, that is, the world as it exists independently of our notions about it. In contrast, the discursive perspective emphasizes the way in which the world is constructed discursively, both in the sense of discourse about the world and in the sense that discourse is part of the world. […] Discourse is socially constructed.” (p. 166)
“The basic premise for the discourse analyst is that the “social” world does not exist independently of our constructions of it, so it does not make sense to ask if our analyses are valid in the sense that they are true, that is, that they correspond to an independent world. […] We propose that an analysis is warrantable to the extent that it is both trustworthy and sound.”(p. 167)
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