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

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