Quantifying Approaches to Discourse for Social Scientists

✍ Scribed by Ronny Scholz

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing,Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides an overview of a range of quantitative methods, presenting a thorough analytical toolbox which will be of practical use to researchers across the social sciences as they face the challenges raised by new technology-driven language practices. The book is driven by a reflexive mind-set which views quantifying methods as complementary rather than in opposition to qualitative methods, and the chapters analyse a multitude of different intra- and extra-textual context levels essential for the understanding of how meaning is (re-)constructed in society. Uniting contributions from a range of national and disciplinary traditions, the chapters in this volume bring together state-of-the-art research from British, Canadian, French, German and Swiss authors representing the fields of Political Science, Sociology, Linguistics, Computer Science and Statistics. It will be of particular interest to discourse analysts, but also to other scholars working in the digital humanities and with big data of any kind.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Understanding Twenty-First-Century Societies Using Quantifying Text-Processing Methods (Ronny Scholz)....Pages 3-21
Beyond the Quantitative and Qualitative Cleavage: Confluence of Research Operations in Discourse Analysis (Jules Duchastel, Danielle Laberge)....Pages 23-47
Front Matter ....Pages 49-49
The Academic Dispositif: Towards a Context-Centred Discourse Analysis (Julian Hamann, Jens Maesse, Ronny Scholz, Johannes Angermuller)....Pages 51-87
On the Social Uses of Scientometrics: The Quantification of Academic Evaluation and the Rise of Numerocracy in Higher Education (Johannes Angermuller, Thed van Leeuwen)....Pages 89-119
Front Matter ....Pages 121-121
Lexicometry: A Quantifying Heuristic for Social Scientists in Discourse Studies (Ronny Scholz)....Pages 123-153
Words and Facts: Textual Analysis—Topic-Centred Methods for Social Scientists (Karl M. van Meter)....Pages 155-181
Text Mining for Discourse Analysis: An Exemplary Study of the Debate on Minimum Wages in Germany (Gregor Wiedemann)....Pages 183-212
Front Matter ....Pages 213-213
The Value of Revisiting and Extending Previous Studies: The Case of Islam in the UK Press (Paul Baker, Tony McEnery)....Pages 215-249
The Linguistic Construction of World: An Example of Visual Analysis and Methodological Challenges (Noah Bubenhofer, Klaus Rothenhäusler, Katrin Affolter, Danica Pajovic)....Pages 251-284
Multi-method Discourse Analysis of Twitter Communication: A Comparison of Two Global Political Issues (Jörn Stegmeier, Wolf J. Schünemann, Marcus Müller, Maria Becker, Stefan Steiger, Sebastian Stier)....Pages 285-314
Back Matter ....Pages 315-320

✦ Subjects

Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Applied Linguistics; Corpus Linguistics; Knowledge - Discourse; Research Methodology; Semantics