Quantifying approaches to discourse for social scientists. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Ronny Scholz.
• Editors: Scholz, Ronny
• Contents: Part A. Introductory Remarks.- Chapter 1. Understanding 21st Century Societies using Quantifying Text Processing Methods; Ronny Scholz.- Chapter 2. Beyond the quantitative and qualitative cleavage: Confluence of research operations in discourse analysis; Jules Duchastel and Danielle Laberge.- Part B. Analysing the Institutional Contexts of Discourses.- Chapter 3. The academic dispositive: Towards a context-centred discourse analysis; Julian Hamann, Jens Maesse, Ronny Scholz and Johannes Angermuller.- Chapter 4. On the social uses of scientometrics: The quantification of academic evaluation and the rise of numerocracy in higher education; Johannes Angermuller and Thed van Leeuwen.- Part C. Exploring Corpora: Heuristics, Topic Modelling and Text Mining.- Chapter 5. Lexicometry: A quantifying heuristic for social scientist in discourse studies; Ronny Scholz.- Chapter 6. Words and Facts: Textual Analysis: Topic Centred Methods for Social Scientists; Karl M. van Meter.- Chapter 7. Text mining for discourse analysis: An exemplary study of the debate on minimum wages in Germany; Gregor Wiedemann.- Part D. New Developments in Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies.- Chapter 8. The Value of Revisiting and Extending Previous Studies: the case of Islam in the UK press; Paul Baker and Tony McEnery.- Chapter 9. The Linguistic Construction of World – an Example of Visual Analysis and Methodological Challenges; Noah Bubenhofer, Klaus Rothenhäusler, Katrin Affolter, Danica Pajovic.- Chapter 10. Multi-Method Discourse Analysis of Twitter Communication: A Comparison of Two Global Political Issues; Jörn Stegmeier, Wolf J. Schünemann, Marcus Müller, Maria Becker, Stefan Steiger and Sebastian Stier.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white, and colour)
• Subjects: 401.41; Discourse analysis; Quantitative research; Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319973708
• Related ISBNs: 9783319973692
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