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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810047103321

Autore

Popping R (Roel)

Titolo

Computer-assisted text analysis / / Roel Popping

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Sage Publications, 2000

ISBN

1-4462-7575-2

1-84920-874-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 229p.)

Collana

New technologies for social research

Disciplina

401/.41/0285

Soggetti

Discourse analysis - Data processing

Electronic data processing

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-219) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 - Text analysis:  What and why? -- 2 - Further conceptual foundations -- 3 - Recent approaches to quantitative text analysis -- 4 - Thematic text analysis -- 5 - Semantic text analysis -- 6 - Network text analysis -- 7 - Sampling, reliability and validity -- 8 - Relation to qualitative research -- 9 - Relation to linguistics and information retrieval -- 10 - Conclusion -- Appendix: Computer programs -- References -- Author index -- Subject index.

Sommario/riassunto

'Computer-Assisted Text Analysis' provides an up-to-date guide to the methods for the computer-based quantitative analysis of texts. It concentrates on the methodological and practical issues of coding and handling data.