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Weaving a virtuous 'patchwork quilt': the constitution and interpretation of a linguistic corpus in a study about reflectivity and entrepreneurial articulation

This article presents the basic stage of a larger inquiry process, the constitution and the interpretative analysis of a linguistic corpus capable of advancing in the direction indicated in a previous stage - when focus and interest issues were consolidated - of a study on reflectivity and entrepreneurial articulation. Thus this 'patchwork quilt' that is weaved here is called 'virtuous', something capable (that has the virtue) 'of producing effect'. The objective is to present this process of interlacement of evidences of different sources and the natural construction of this corpus and the interpretations, according to the authors' theoretical framework. How was this corpus weaved? What was its importance for the advancement of this study? These are the main questions that guide this article. As result, the related corpus demonstrated to have great utility for access and grouping of evidence in the 'illustrative case', as well as the interpretation, according to the theoretical contribution, of important issues (previously listed) for the central phenomenon in study, the 'entrepreneurial articulation of reflective character', by means of the evidence found in the case.

linguistic corpus; hermeneutic interpretation; reflectivity; entrepreneurial articulation


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