Textual Analysis

Number Of Volumes: 4
Ahmet Suerdem - London School of Economics, UK
Textual Analysis
April 2014 | 1600 pages | Sage UK
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This four-volume Major Work mines the extensive research of the past few decades into textual analysis. The set’s esteemed team of editorshave collated seminal papers which consider the key difference between content analysis and textual analysis, the conceptual starting point and the logic and the attitude of the research process, as well as exploring the tension between reading a text and using a text, amongst other key issues.  

With experienced and respected figures in the field at the helm, the carefully selected papers in this collection are put into context and analysed in a newly-written introductory chapter which charts the developments and looks to the future of the field. 

Volume One: Basic philosophical considerations
Volume Two: Modalities of textual work
Volume Three: Reading Text
Volume Four: Using Text

Contents

VOLUME ONE

VOLUME ONE

Part One: Socio-Cultural Indicators from Text Data

  • “Science in the Media” as a Cultural Indicator: Contextualizing Surveys with Media Analysis
  • Media Content as Social Indicators: The Greenfield Index of Agenda-Setting
  • Toward “Cultural Indicators”: The Analysis of Mass Mediated Public Message Systems
  • Content Analysis and the Study of Sociopolitical Change
  • Cultural Indicators Based on Content Analysis: A Secondary Analysis of Sorokin’s Data on Fluctuations of Systems of Truth

Part Two: Benchmarks: Exegesis and Hermeneutics

  • The Operation Called Verstehen
  • Introduction: The Role of the Reader
  • Extracts from Truth and Method
  • Objective Interpretation
  • The Conflict of Interpretations
  • The Intentional Fallacy
  • The Affective Fallacy
  • Exegesis and Eisegesis in the Interpretation of Scripture
  • Motives, Intentions and the Interpretation of Texts

Part Three: 3 Text Selection and Corpus Construction

  • Corpus Design Criteria
  • Using Substitutes for Full-Text News Stories in Content Analysis: Which Text Is Best?
  • Corpus Construction: A Principle for Qualitative Data Collection
  • Conclusion: Semiological Research
  • Representativeness in Corpus Design
  • Data as Representations: Contextualizing Qualitative and Quantitative Research Strategies
  • 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
  • A Method to Extract Social Representations from Linguistic Corpus
  • Knowledge Graphs and Network Text Analysis
  • A Conceptual Framework for Quantitative Text Analysis: On Joining Probabilities and Substantive Inferences about Texts

Part Two: Narrative Analysis (5)

  • Narrative Psychological Content Analysis
  • Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience
  • Extract from Morphology of the Folktale
  • The Narrative Function
  • “Narrative Analysis” Thirty Years

Part Three: Rhetoric: Argument, Frame, Metaphor (7)

  • The Old Rhetoric: An Aide-Mémoire
  • The Rhetorical Situation
  • Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm
  • The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
  • Framing as a Theory of Media Effects
  • Using Toulmin’s Framework for the Analysis of Everyday Argumentation: Some Methodological Considerations
  • The Layout of Arguments
  • VOLUME THREE

Part One: Discourse Analysis (6)

  • Doing Discourse Analysis: Coalitions, Practices, Meaning)
  • Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics
  • Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Critical Discourse Analysis as a Method in Social Scientific Research
  • How to Analyse Discourse
  • Course in General Linguistics

Part Two: Tagging, Coding & Indexing: Top-down, Bottom-up, Pattern Matching (7)

  • Conceptual Foundation
  • Toward the Integration of Content Analysis and General Methodology
  • Thematic Networks: An Analytic Tool for Qualitative Research
  • Thematic Analysis and Its Reconceptualization as ‘Saliency Analysis’
  • Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
  • Demonstrating Rigor Using Thematic Analysis: A Hybrid Approach of Inductive and Deductive Coding and Theme Development
  • Shifting the Grounds: Constructivist Grounded Theory Methods
  • VOLUME FOUR

Part One: Applications in Different Fields of Inquiry (13)

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
  • Analysing Parliamentary Debate with Computer Assistance
  • Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach

SOCIOLOGY AND (SOCIAL) PSYCHOLOGY

  • The Medicalization of Science News – from the “Rocket–scalpel” to the “Gene–meteorite” Complex
  • An Analysis of the Verbal Content of Suicide Notes
  • The Duality of Culture and Practice: Poverty Relief in New York City, 1888–1917

ECONOMICS, MARKETING AND ORGANISATIONAL STUDIES

  • Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth
  • The Story of Work: A Narrative Analysis of Workplace Emotion
  • Extracting Team Mental Models through Textual Analysis

MASS MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

  • Metaphors and Diaphors in Science Communication: Mapping the Case of Stem-Cell Research
  • Constructing Climate Change: Claims and Frames in US News Coverage of an Environmental Issue
  • Worldviews and Discursive Construction of GMO-related Risk Perceptions in Turkey
  • Ancient Roman Metaphors for Communication

Part Two: Validation: Triangulation and Abduction (7)

  • On Psychological Similarity
  • Triangulation: Validity and Empirically-based Hypothesis Construction
  • Triangulation Revisited: Strategy of Validation or Alternative?
  • Towards Public Accountability: Beyond Sampling, Reliability and Validity
  • Horns, Hooves, Insteps: Some Hypotheses on Three Types of Abduction
  • The Inference to the Best Explanation

Description

This four-volume Major Work mines the extensive research of the past few decades into textual analysis. The set’s esteemed team of editorshave collated seminal papers which consider the key difference between content analysis and textual analysis, the conceptual starting point and the logic and the attitude of the research process, as well as exploring the tension between reading a text and using a text, amongst other key issues.  

With experienced and respected figures in the field at the helm, the carefully selected papers in this collection are put into context and analysed in a newly-written introductory chapter which charts the developments and looks to the future of the field. 

Volume One: Basic philosophical considerations
Volume Two: Modalities of textual work
Volume Three: Reading Text
Volume Four: Using Text

Contents

VOLUME ONE

VOLUME ONE

Part One: Socio-Cultural Indicators from Text Data

  • “Science in the Media” as a Cultural Indicator: Contextualizing Surveys with Media Analysis
  • Media Content as Social Indicators: The Greenfield Index of Agenda-Setting
  • Toward “Cultural Indicators”: The Analysis of Mass Mediated Public Message Systems
  • Content Analysis and the Study of Sociopolitical Change
  • Cultural Indicators Based on Content Analysis: A Secondary Analysis of Sorokin’s Data on Fluctuations of Systems of Truth

Part Two: Benchmarks: Exegesis and Hermeneutics

  • The Operation Called Verstehen
  • Introduction: The Role of the Reader
  • Extracts from Truth and Method
  • Objective Interpretation
  • The Conflict of Interpretations
  • The Intentional Fallacy
  • The Affective Fallacy
  • Exegesis and Eisegesis in the Interpretation of Scripture
  • Motives, Intentions and the Interpretation of Texts

Part Three: 3 Text Selection and Corpus Construction

  • Corpus Design Criteria
  • Using Substitutes for Full-Text News Stories in Content Analysis: Which Text Is Best?
  • Corpus Construction: A Principle for Qualitative Data Collection
  • Conclusion: Semiological Research
  • Representativeness in Corpus Design
  • Data as Representations: Contextualizing Qualitative and Quantitative Research Strategies
  • 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
  • A Method to Extract Social Representations from Linguistic Corpus
  • Knowledge Graphs and Network Text Analysis
  • A Conceptual Framework for Quantitative Text Analysis: On Joining Probabilities and Substantive Inferences about Texts

Part Two: Narrative Analysis (5)

  • Narrative Psychological Content Analysis
  • Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience
  • Extract from Morphology of the Folktale
  • The Narrative Function
  • “Narrative Analysis” Thirty Years

Part Three: Rhetoric: Argument, Frame, Metaphor (7)

  • The Old Rhetoric: An Aide-Mémoire
  • The Rhetorical Situation
  • Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm
  • The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
  • Framing as a Theory of Media Effects
  • Using Toulmin’s Framework for the Analysis of Everyday Argumentation: Some Methodological Considerations
  • The Layout of Arguments
  • VOLUME THREE

Part One: Discourse Analysis (6)

  • Doing Discourse Analysis: Coalitions, Practices, Meaning)
  • Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics
  • Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Critical Discourse Analysis as a Method in Social Scientific Research
  • How to Analyse Discourse
  • Course in General Linguistics

Part Two: Tagging, Coding & Indexing: Top-down, Bottom-up, Pattern Matching (7)

  • Conceptual Foundation
  • Toward the Integration of Content Analysis and General Methodology
  • Thematic Networks: An Analytic Tool for Qualitative Research
  • Thematic Analysis and Its Reconceptualization as ‘Saliency Analysis’
  • Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
  • Demonstrating Rigor Using Thematic Analysis: A Hybrid Approach of Inductive and Deductive Coding and Theme Development
  • Shifting the Grounds: Constructivist Grounded Theory Methods
  • VOLUME FOUR

Part One: Applications in Different Fields of Inquiry (13)

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
  • Analysing Parliamentary Debate with Computer Assistance
  • Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach

SOCIOLOGY AND (SOCIAL) PSYCHOLOGY

  • The Medicalization of Science News – from the “Rocket–scalpel” to the “Gene–meteorite” Complex
  • An Analysis of the Verbal Content of Suicide Notes
  • The Duality of Culture and Practice: Poverty Relief in New York City, 1888–1917

ECONOMICS, MARKETING AND ORGANISATIONAL STUDIES

  • Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth
  • The Story of Work: A Narrative Analysis of Workplace Emotion
  • Extracting Team Mental Models through Textual Analysis

MASS MEDIA & COMMUNICATION

  • Metaphors and Diaphors in Science Communication: Mapping the Case of Stem-Cell Research
  • Constructing Climate Change: Claims and Frames in US News Coverage of an Environmental Issue
  • Worldviews and Discursive Construction of GMO-related Risk Perceptions in Turkey
  • Ancient Roman Metaphors for Communication

Part Two: Validation: Triangulation and Abduction (7)

  • On Psychological Similarity
  • Triangulation: Validity and Empirically-based Hypothesis Construction
  • Triangulation Revisited: Strategy of Validation or Alternative?
  • Towards Public Accountability: Beyond Sampling, Reliability and Validity
  • Horns, Hooves, Insteps: Some Hypotheses on Three Types of Abduction
  • The Inference to the Best Explanation

April 2014 | 1600 pages | Sage UK

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Hardcover 31/03/2026 9781446246894 $1307.00

This four-volume Major Work mines the extensive research of the past few decades into textual analysis. The set’s esteemed team of editorshave collated seminal papers which consider the key difference between content analysis and textual analysis, the conceptual starting point and the logic and the attitude of the research process, as well as exploring the tension between reading a text and using a text, amongst other key issues.  

With experienced and respected figures in the field at the helm, the carefully selected papers in this collection are put into context and analysed in a newly-written introductory chapter which charts the developments and looks to the future of the field. 

Volume One: Basic philosophical considerations
Volume Two: Modalities of textual work
Volume Three: Reading Text
Volume Four: Using Text

Table Of Contents:

  • VOLUME ONE
  • Part One: Socio-Cultural Indicators from Text Data
  • “Science in the Media” as a Cultural Indicator: Contextualizing Surveys with Media Analysis
  • Media Content as Social Indicators: The Greenfield Index of Agenda-Setting
  • Toward “Cultural Indicators”: The Analysis of Mass Mediated Public Message Systems
  • Content Analysis and the Study of Sociopolitical Change
  • Cultural Indicators Based on Content Analysis: A Secondary Analysis of Sorokin’s Data on Fluctuations of Systems of Truth
  • Part Two: Benchmarks: Exegesis and Hermeneutics
  • The Operation Called Verstehen
  • Introduction: The Role of the Reader
  • Extracts from Truth and Method
  • Objective Interpretation
  • The Conflict of Interpretations
  • The Intentional Fallacy
  • The Affective Fallacy
  • Exegesis and Eisegesis in the Interpretation of Scripture
  • Motives, Intentions and the Interpretation of Texts
  • Part Three: 3 Text Selection and Corpus Construction
  • Corpus Design Criteria
  • Using Substitutes for Full-Text News Stories in Content Analysis: Which Text Is Best?
  • Corpus Construction: A Principle for Qualitative Data Collection
  • Conclusion: Semiological Research
  • Representativeness in Corpus Design
  • Data as Representations: Contextualizing Qualitative and Quantitative Research Strategies
  • 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
  • A Method to Extract Social Representations from Linguistic Corpus
  • Knowledge Graphs and Network Text Analysis
  • A Conceptual Framework for Quantitative Text Analysis: On Joining Probabilities and Substantive Inferences about Texts
  • Part Two: Narrative Analysis (5)
  • Narrative Psychological Content Analysis
  • Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience
  • Extract from Morphology of the Folktale
  • The Narrative Function
  • “Narrative Analysis” Thirty Years
  • Part Three: Rhetoric: Argument, Frame, Metaphor (7)
  • The Old Rhetoric: An Aide-Mémoire
  • The Rhetorical Situation
  • Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm
  • The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
  • Framing as a Theory of Media Effects
  • Using Toulmin’s Framework for the Analysis of Everyday Argumentation: Some Methodological Considerations
  • The Layout of Arguments
  • VOLUME THREE
  • Part One: Discourse Analysis (6)
  • Doing Discourse Analysis: Coalitions, Practices, Meaning)
  • Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics
  • Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Critical Discourse Analysis as a Method in Social Scientific Research
  • How to Analyse Discourse
  • Course in General Linguistics
  • Part Two: Tagging, Coding & Indexing: Top-down, Bottom-up, Pattern Matching (7)
  • Conceptual Foundation
  • Toward the Integration of Content Analysis and General Methodology
  • Thematic Networks: An Analytic Tool for Qualitative Research
  • Thematic Analysis and Its Reconceptualization as ‘Saliency Analysis’
  • Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
  • Demonstrating Rigor Using Thematic Analysis: A Hybrid Approach of Inductive and Deductive Coding and Theme Development
  • Shifting the Grounds: Constructivist Grounded Theory Methods
  • 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
  • Analysing Parliamentary Debate with Computer Assistance
  • Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach
  • SOCIOLOGY AND (SOCIAL) PSYCHOLOGY
  • The Medicalization of Science News – from the “Rocket–scalpel” to the “Gene–meteorite” Complex
  • An Analysis of the Verbal Content of Suicide Notes
  • The Duality of Culture and Practice: Poverty Relief in New York City, 1888–1917
  • ECONOMICS, MARKETING AND ORGANISATIONAL STUDIES
  • Material Values in the Comics: A Content Analysis of Comic Books Featuring Themes of Wealth
  • The Story of Work: A Narrative Analysis of Workplace Emotion
  • Extracting Team Mental Models through Textual Analysis
  • MASS MEDIA & COMMUNICATION
  • Metaphors and Diaphors in Science Communication: Mapping the Case of Stem-Cell Research
  • Constructing Climate Change: Claims and Frames in US News Coverage of an Environmental Issue
  • Worldviews and Discursive Construction of GMO-related Risk Perceptions in Turkey
  • Ancient Roman Metaphors for Communication
  • Part Two: Validation: Triangulation and Abduction (7)
  • On Psychological Similarity
  • Triangulation: Validity and Empirically-based Hypothesis Construction
  • Triangulation Revisited: Strategy of Validation or Alternative?
  • Towards Public Accountability: Beyond Sampling, Reliability and Validity
  • Horns, Hooves, Insteps: Some Hypotheses on Three Types of Abduction
  • The Inference to the Best Explanation

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