thematic codes

first things first:

• I ejected the ‘basic emotions” stuff to the linguistic counting section . . . the simple point to make from that data is that we humans are not really that basic in our communication of emotions. we need more vocabulary, more than “basic,” to understand one another.
• also completely eliminated the “cognitive/conscious/unconscious/social” stuff, because there are too many definitional problems.

so I am left with four main codes to work through:

1. what did their explanations of their “interpretation of emotions across cultures” look like? (what did they say they were doing as individuals)
2. how did their cultural scripts come into play?
3. when there was disagreement, what social and cognitive processes did they demonstrate in their focus group interactions?
4. finally, what insights we draw for the teaching cross-cultural emotional interpretation?

now I have to sort out the sub themes.