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From Words to Numbers - Narrative, Data, and Social Science

English · Paperback / Softback

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Klappentext 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). Zusammenfassung This 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! lynching! riots). Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. From Words to Numbers: A Journey: Prologue; 1. 'In the beginning, there was the word'; 2. Ars memoriae; 3: everything is number; Part II. Looking Back: What's in the Numbers?: 4. The word and the world; 5. 'A worlde of wordes'; 6. Journeys end.

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Authors Roberto Franzosi, Roberto (University of Reading) Franzosi, Roberto P. Franzosi, Franzosi Roberto
Assisted by Mark Granovetter (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 24.05.2004
 
EAN 9780521541459
ISBN 978-0-521-54145-9
No. of pages 500
Series Structural Analysis in the Soc
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries

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