I have figured out. In general it is not ethical to use direct quotations from a story of a participant without his or her consent. I should do either: (a) to inform participants clearly that my study needs to use direct quotes; or (b) to code (paraphrase) the story and not to use direct quotes.
Now, the Ethics Committee requires me to provide a special form of informed consent because I am involved in a case study which has a high probability to deal with narratives (direct quotations from stories). Alternatively, I need to state the use of direct quotations clearly in the Information Sheet and the Informed Concent Form to obtain an agreement of participants.
Gosh! Is this why positivists always code into numbers? (a bad joke!)
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