A text passage from a respondent's story that is linked with a key theme from within that story is called:
A) data structure.
B) ethnographic data.
C) an analysis unit.
D) a hermeneutic unit.

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A hermeneutic unit refers to a segment of text (or data) that is identified for analysis because it is linked with a key theme or concept within the broader narrative or dataset. This term is often used in qualitative research, particularly in studies that employ hermeneutics, which is a method of interpretation in fields such as literature, linguistics, and sociology.

A Text Passage from a Respondent's Story That Is Linked