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<blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 4206891" data-attributes="member: 7533">Eh...&nbsp; I probably works, but it seems like a buzz-words that you're using just to sound smart.&nbsp; There's nothing wrong with being explicitly clear.&nbsp; Nobody would be confused by you saying, &quot;I analyzed the existing body of work in this field, and examined the impact that the perceptions of this subject have on the subject,&quot; and then later referring to it simply as, &quot;my analysis&quot;.That aside, &quot;meta&quot; in this sort of context typically means, &quot;more comprehensive&quot; or &quot;transcending&quot;, and sometimes it is used to designate a new but related discipline designed to deal critically with the original one.&nbsp; In which case, those definitions work fine in regards to what you are using the prefix for, so long as your audience understands what you mean by it.Alternatively, you could use textual meta-analysis, &quot;meta-analysis&quot; being a term used to define a study that examines the pooled results of several different, but similar, experiments for statical correlations.In that sense, you are doing a &quot;meta-analysis of the contextual perception of [insert field of study]&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pbartender, post: 4206891, member: 7533"] Eh... I probably works, but it seems like a buzz-words that you're using just to sound smart. There's nothing wrong with being explicitly clear. Nobody would be confused by you saying, "I analyzed the existing body of work in this field, and examined the impact that the perceptions of this subject have on the subject," and then later referring to it simply as, "my analysis". That aside, "meta" in this sort of context typically means, "more comprehensive" or "transcending", and sometimes it is used to designate a new but related discipline designed to deal critically with the original one. In which case, those definitions work fine in regards to what you are using the prefix for, so long as your audience understands what you mean by it. Alternatively, you could use textual meta-analysis, "meta-analysis" being a term used to define a study that examines the pooled results of several different, but similar, experiments for statical correlations. In that sense, you are doing a "meta-analysis of the contextual perception of [insert field of study]". [/QUOTE]

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