Text Analysis for the Social Sciences: Methods for Drawing Statistical Inferences From Texts and Transcripts

by Roberts,Carl W.

• ISBN13: 9780805817355
• ISBN10: 0805817352
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781000149241
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Routledge
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Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
A Matter of Definition	p. 9
Methodologies	p. 33
Thematic Text Analysis: New Agendas for Analyzing Text Content	p. 35
Acknowledgments	p. 54
Semantic Text Analysis: on the Structure of Linguistic Ambiguity in Ordinary Discourse	p. 55
Network Text Analysis: the Network Position of Concepts	p. 79
Applications	p. 101
Perceptions of Social Change: 100 Years of Front-Page Content in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times	p. 103
The Unobtrusive Measurement of Psychological States and Traits	p. 117
Appendix	p. 126
Labor Unrest in the Italian Service Sector: an Application of Semantic Grammars	p. 131
Acknowledgments	p. 145
Environmental Change and Conflict: Analyzing the Ethiopian Famine of 1984-1985	p. 147
Acknowledgments	p. 158
Assessing the Portrayal of Science as a Process of Inquiry in High School Biology Textbooks: an Application of Linguistic Content Analysis	p. 159
Applications of Computer-Aided Text Analysis: Analyzing Literary and Nonliterary Texts	p. 171
Reasoning in Economic Discourse: an Application of the Network Approach to the Dutch Press	p. 191
Acknowledgments	p. 207
Computer Programs for the Analysis of Texts and Transcripts	p. 209
Prospects	p. 223
The Future of Coders: Human Judgments in a World of Sophisticated Software	p. 225
Developments in Computer Science with Application to Text Analysis	p. 239
Text Analysis and Natural Language Database Systems	p. 251
A Theoretical Map for Selecting Among Text Analysis Methods	p. 275
References	p. 285
Author Index	p. 303
Subject Index	p. 309
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