Textual Analysis

VOLUME ONE Part One: Socio-Cultural Indicators from Text Data "Science in the Media" as a Cultural Indicator: Contextualizing Surveys with Media Analysis - Martin Bauer Media Content as Social Indicators: The Greenfield Index of Agenda-Setting - James R. Beniger Toward "Cultural Indicators": The Analysis of Mass Mediated Public Message Systems - George Gerbner Content Analysis and the Study of Sociopolitical Change - Morris Janowitz Cultural Indicators Based on Content Analysis: A Secondary Analysis of Sorokin's Data on Fluctuations of Systems of Truth - Hans-Dieter Klingemann, Peter Philip Mohler and Robert Philip Weber Part Two: Benchmarks: Exegesis and Hermeneutics The Operation Called Verstehen - Theodore Abel Introduction: The Role of the Reader - Umberto Eco Extracts from Truth and Method - Hans-Georg Gadamer Objective Interpretation - E.D. Hirsch, Jr. The Conflict of Interpretations - P. Ricoeur The Intentional Fallacy - W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. and M.C. Beardsley The Affective Fallacy - W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. and M.C. Beardsley Exegesis and Eisegesis in the Interpretation of Scripture - Reverend G. Ernest Wright Motives, Intentions and the Interpretation of Texts - Quentin Skinner Part Three: 3 Text Selection and Corpus Construction Corpus Design Criteria - Sue Atkins, Jeremy Clear and Nicholas Ostler Using Substitutes for Full-Text News Stories in Content Analysis: Which Text Is Best? - Scott L. Althaus, Jill A. Edy and Patricia F. Phalen Corpus Construction: A Principle for Qualitative Data Collection - Martin W. Bauer and Bas Aarts Conclusion: Semiological Research - Roland Barthes Representativeness in Corpus Design - Douglas Biber Data as Representations: Contextualizing Qualitative and Quantitative Research Strategies - Jaan Valsiner VOLUME TWO Part One: Word Space Models, Semantic Networks, Classification (4) Revealing Social Structure from Texts: Meta-Matrix Text Analysis as a Novel Method for Network Text Analysis - Jana Diesner and Kathleen M. Carley A Method to Extract Social Representations from Linguistic Corpus - Saadi Lahlou Knowledge Graphs and Network Text Analysis - Roel Popping A Conceptual Framework for Quantitative Text Analysis: On Joining Probabilities and Substantive Inferences about Texts - Carl W. Roberts Part Two: Narrative Analysis (5) Narrative Psychological Content Analysis - Janos Laszlo Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience - William Labov and Joshua Waletzky Extract from Morphology of the Folktale - Vladimir Propp The Narrative Function - Paul Ricoeur "Narrative Analysis" Thirty Years - Emanuel A. Schegloff Part Three: Rhetoric: Argument, Frame, Metaphor (7) The Old Rhetoric: An Aide-Memoire - Roland Barthes The Rhetorical Situation - Lloyd F. Bitzer Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm - Robert M. Entman The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor - George Lakoff Framing as a Theory of Media Effects - Dietram A. Scheufele Using Toulmin's Framework for the Analysis of Everyday Argumentation: Some Methodological Considerations - Maria Simosi The Layout of Arguments - Stephen Toulmin VOLUME THREE Part One: Discourse Analysis (6) Doing Discourse Analysis: Coalitions, Practices, Meaning) - Maarten A. Hajer Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics - Douglas Biber Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis - Teun A. van Dijk Critical Discourse Analysis as a Method in Social Scientific Research - Norman Fairclough How to Analyse Discourse - J. Potter and M. Wetherell Course in General Linguistics - Ferdinand de Saussure Part Two: Tagging, Coding & Indexing: Top-down, Bottom-up, Pattern Matching (7) Conceptual Foundation - K. Krippendorff Toward the Integration of Content Analysis and General Methodology - John Markoff, Gilbert Shapiro and Sasha R. Weitman Thematic Networks: An Analytic Tool for Qualitative Research - Jennifer Attride-Stirling Thematic Analysis and Its Reconceptualization as 'Saliency Analysis' - Stephen Buetow Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis - Hsiu-Fang Hsieh and Sarah E. Shannon Demonstrating Rigor Using Thematic Analysis: A Hybrid Approach of Inductive and Deductive Coding and Theme Development - Jennifer Fereday and Eimear Muir-Cochrane Shifting the Grounds: Constructivist Grounded Theory Methods - Kathy Charmaz VOLUME FOUR Part One: Applications in Different Fields of Inquiry (13) POLITICAL SCIENCE Parsing, Semantic Networks, and Political Authority Using Syntactic Analysis to Extract Semantic Relations from Dutch Newspaper Articles - Wouter van Atteveldt, Jan Kleinnijenhuis and Nel Ruigrok Analysing Parliamentary Debate with Computer Assistance - Judith Bara, Albert Weale and Aude Bicquelet Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach - William A. Gamson and Andre Modigliani SOCIOLOGY AND (SOCIAL) PSYCHOLOGY The Medicalization of Science News - from the "Rocket-scalpel" to the "Gene-meteorite" Complex - Martin Bauer An Analysis of the Verbal Content of Suicide Notes - Louis A. Gottschalk and Goldine C. Gleser The Duality of Culture and Practice: Poverty Relief in New York City, 1888-1917 - John W. Mohr and Vincent Duquenne ECONOMICS, MARKETING AND ORGANISATIONAL STUDIES Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth - Russell W. Belk The Story of Work: A Narrative Analysis of Workplace Emotion - Connie J. Boudens Extracting Team Mental Models through Textual Analysis - Kathleen M. Carley MASS MEDIA & COMMUNICATION Metaphors and Diaphors in Science Communication: Mapping the Case of Stem-Cell Research - Loet Leydesdorff and Iina Hellsten Constructing Climate Change: Claims and Frames in US News Coverage of an Environmental Issue - Craig Trumbo Worldviews and Discursive Construction of GMO-related Risk Perceptions in Turkey - Giuseppe A. Veltri and Ahmet Suerdem Ancient Roman Metaphors for Communication - Rob Wiseman Part Two: Validation: Triangulation and Abduction (7) On Psychological Similarity - Michael A. Wallach Triangulation: Validity and Empirically-based Hypothesis Construction - Christian Erzberger and Gerald Prein Triangulation Revisited: Strategy of Validation or Alternative? - Uwe Flick Towards Public Accountability: Beyond Sampling, Reliability and Validity - George Gaskell and Martin W. Bauer Horns, Hooves, Insteps: Some Hypotheses on Three Types of Abduction - Umberto Eco The Inference to the Best Explanation - Gilbert H. Harman