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Although these materials contain rich representations of professional reasoning, organisational dynamics and patient experiences, their analysis remains largely confined to thematic qualitative approaches or variable\u2010based quantitative models, which may struggle to examine how meanings are organised across extensive corpora. This article introduces the Multidimensional Interpretative Textual (MIT) design as an epistemological and methodological framework for corpus\u2010based discourse analysis in nursing research, rather than a specific analytical technique or software procedure. The MIT design conceptualises discourse as a structured empirical object and examines textual data at the corpus level. By integrating multidimensional statistical formalisation with interpretive reasoning, it renders patterns in the organisation of meanings empirically observable before theoretical significance is attributed to them. 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