This post to me talks about analysis, and how it really is all about breaking it down into steps and building like a house. If you want to build a house you do not put t he roof on the same time as you build the foundation, you have to do it separately to get the completed house. Much like when you do analysis, but in the case of analysis, you work backwards. If you have a problem you want to analyze, its best to break it down and rebuild it till you got an answer. It is best if you take your pieces, and then look how they fit together. Once you have all your pieces, you form a theory of how they make come together to get the desired final product.
I think analysis would be used in my research project on comedy as a way to see how a joke makes people laugh. You don't tell a joke with just a punch line, you have to have many things to make it funny. For a joke to be successful, it has to have a setup, a coherent story, characters, and a satisfying payoff relevant to the rest of the joke. By taking a joke and analyzing each of its parts, I could see how they work together to get the desired goal of a laugh.
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