From Text to Political Positions

Text analysis across disciplines
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-272-0646-6
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 333 Seiten, Gewicht: 765 g

Reihe: Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture

From Text to Political Positions addresses cross-disciplinary innovation in political text analysis for party positioning. Drawing on political science, computational methods and discourse analysis, it presents a diverse collection of analytical models including pure quantitative and qualitative approaches. By bringing together the prevailing text-analysis methods from each discipline the volume aims to alert researchers to new and exciting possibilities of text analyses across their own disciplinary boundary.
The volume builds on the fact that each of the disciplines has a common interest in extracting information from political texts. The focus on political texts thus facilitates interdisciplinary cross-overs. The volume also includes chapters combining methods as examples of cross-disciplinary endeavours. These chapters present an open discussion of the constraints and (dis)advantages of either quantitative or qualitative methods when evaluating the possibilities of combining analytic tools.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaal, Bertie

Maks, Isa

Elfrinkhof, Annemarie van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik