From Words to Numbers: Narrative, Data, and Social Science (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

From Words to Numbers: Narrative, Data, and Social Science (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences) Book

From Words to Numbers departs radically from traditional content analysis approaches to the quantitative study of texts. It is based on a rigorous linguistic theory of narrative, rather than the ad-hoc approaches of context analysis. Furthermore, it sows words to through an elegant mathematical t hread. Finally, it has engaged narrative structures dominated by the metaphors of the "journey" (from words to numbers) and the alchemy" (words into numbers).Read More

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    Departing radically from traditional content analysis approaches to the quantitative study of texts, this work is based on a linguistic theory of narrative, rather than the ad hoc approaches of context analysis. The book illustrates a set of tools--story grammars, relational data models, and network models--that can be profitably used for the collection, organization, and analysis of narrative data in socio-historical research (e.g., narratives of strikes, demonstrations, lynchings, and riots).

  • 0521815207
  • 9780521815208
  • Roberto Franzosi
  • 24 May 2004
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 500
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