Summary
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Key Readings
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
Text Analysis – An Introductory Manifesto
1. A Working Definition of ‘Text’ for Social Science Analysis
… the discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves no language safe, outside, nor any subject of the enunciation in position as judge, master, analyst, confessor, decoder. The theory of the Text can coincide only with a practice of writing. (Barthes, 1971)
Selecting the articles for these volumes of SAGE benchmarks on ‘text analysis (TA)’ was no easy task. How to determine the scope of the selection? One could go with a very limited definition of text, such as a canon of official documents or a very broad notion of ‘cultural artefacts’, ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I:
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Socio-Cultural Indicators from Text Data
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1. “Science in the Media” as a Cultural Indicator: Contextualizing Surveys with Media Analysis
Martin Bauer
2000
Between Understanding and Trust: The Public, Science and Technology
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2. Media Content as Social Indicators: The Greenfield Index of Agenda-Setting
James Beniger
1978
Communication Research
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3. Toward “Cultural Indicators”: The Analysis of Mass Mediated Public Message Systems
George Gerbner
1969
AV Communication Review
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4. Content Analysis and the Study of Sociopolitical Change
Morris Janowitz
1976
Journal of Communication
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Hans-Dieter Klingemann | Peter Mohler | Robert Weber
1982
Quality & Quantity
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Benchmarks: Exegesis and Hermeneutics
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6. The Operation Called Verstehen
Theodore Abel
1948
Theodore Abel American Journal of Sociology
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7. Extract from The Role of the Reader
Umberto Eco
1979
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts
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8. Extract from Truth and Method
Hans-Georg Gadamer
1989
Truth and Method
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E. Hirsch
1960
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association
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10. The Conflict of Interpretations
Paul Ricoeur
1970
Freud & Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation
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W. Wimsatt | M. Beardsley
1946
The Sewanee Review
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W. Wimsatt | M. Beardsley
1949
The Sewanee Review
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13. Exegesis and Eisegesis in the Interpretation of Scripture
G. Wright
1937
The Expository Times
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14. Motives, Intentions and the Interpretation of Texts
Quentin Skinner
1972
New Literary History
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Text Selection and Corpus Construction
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Sue Atkins | Jeremy Clear | Nicholas Ostler
1992
Literary and Linguistic Computing
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16. Using Substitutes for Full-Text News Stories in Content Analysis: Which Text Is Best?
Scott Althaus | Jill Edy | Patricia Phalen
2001
American Journal of Political Science
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17. Corpus Construction: A Principle for Qualitative Data Collection
Martin Bauer | Bas Aarts
2000
Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound: A Practical Handbook
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18. Representativeness in Corpus Design
Douglas Biber
1993
Literary and Linguistic Computing
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19. Data as Representations: Contextualizing Qualitative and Quantitative Research Strategies
Jaan Volsiner
2000
Social Science Information
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Volume II:
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Word Space Models, Semantic Networks, Classification
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Jana Diesner | Kathleen Carley
2005
Causal Mapping for Information Systems and Technology Research: Approaches, Advances, and Illustrations
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21. A Method to Extract Social Representations from Linguistic Corpora
Saadi Lahlou
1996
Japanese Journal of Experimental Social Psychology
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22. Knowledge Graphs and Network Text Analysis
Roel Popping
2003
Social Science Information
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Carl Roberts
2000
Quality & Quantity
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Narrative Analysis
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24. Narrative Psychological Content Analysis
János László
2008
The Science of Stories: An Introduction to Narrative Psychology
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25. Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience
William Labov | Joshua Waletzky
1966
Essays on the Verbal and Visual Arts: Proceedings of 1966 Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society
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26. Extract from Morphology of the Folktale
Vladimir Propp
Morphology of the Folktale
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Paul Ricoeur
1981
Hermeneutics & the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation
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28. “Narrative Analysis” Thirty Years Later
Emanuel Schegloff
1997
Journal of Narrative and Life History
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Rhetoric: Argument, Frame, Metaphor
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29. The Old Rhetoric: An Aide-Mémoire
Roland Barthes
1988
The Semiotic Challenge
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Lloyd Bitzer
1968
Philosophy and Rhetoric
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31. Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm
Robert Entman
1993
Journal of Communication
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32. The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor
George Lakoff
1993
Metaphor and Thought
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33. Framing as a Theory of Media Effects
Dietram Scheufele
1999
Journal of Communication
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Maria Simosi
2003
Argumentation
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Stephen Toulmin
2003
The Uses of Argument
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Discourse Analysis
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36. Doing Discourse Analysis: Coalitions, Practices, Meaning
Maarten Hajer
2006
Words Matter in Policy and Planning: Discourse Theory and Method in the Social Sciences
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37. Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics
Douglas Biber
2007
Discourse on the Move: Using Corpus Analysis to Describe Discourse Structure (Volume 28: Studies in Corpus Linguistics)
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38. Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis
Teun van Dijk
1993
Discourse & Society
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39. Critical Discourse Analysis as a Method in Social Scientific Research
Norman Fairclough
2001
Methods of Critical Discourse Analysis
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Jonathan Potter | Margaret Wetherel
1987
Discourse and Social Psychology: Beyond Attitudes and Behaviour
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41. Extract from Course in General Linguistics
Ferdinand de Saussure
1959
Course in General Linguistics
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Tagging, Coding and Indexing: Top-down, Bottom-up, Pattern Matching
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K. Krippendorff
2004
Content Analysis: An Introduction to Its Methodology
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43. Toward the Integration of Content Analysis and General Methodology
John Markoff | Gilbert Shapiro | Sasha Weitman
1975
Sociological Methodology
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44. Thematic Networks: An Analytic Tool for Qualitative Research
Jennifer Attride-Stirling
2001
Qualitative Research
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45. Thematic Analysis and Its Reconceptualization as ‘Saliency Analysis’
Stephen Buetow
2010
Journal of Health Services Research & Policy
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46. Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
Hsiu-Fang Hsieh | Sarah Shannon
2005
Qualitative Health Research
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Jennifer Fereday | Eimear Muir-Cochrane
2006
International Journal of Qualitative Methods
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48. Shifting the Grounds: Constructivist Grounded Theory Methods
Kathy Charmaz
2009
Developing Grounded Theory: The Second Generation (Volume 3 of Developing Qualitative Inquiry)
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Volume IV:
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9. Applications in Different Fields of Inquiry
1960
PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association
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Validation: Similarity, Triangulation and Abduction
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62. On Psychological Similarity
Michael Wallach
1958
Psychological Review
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63. Triangulation: Validity and Empirically-based Hypothesis Construction
Christian Erzberger | Gerald Prein
1997
Quality & Quantity
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64. Triangulation Revisited: Strategy of Validation or Alternative?
Uwe Flick
1992
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour
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65. Towards Public Accountability: Beyond Sampling, Reliability and Validity
George Gaskell | Martin Bauer
2000
Qualitative Researching with Text, Image and Sound: A Practical Handbook
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66. Horns, Hooves, Insteps: Some Hypotheses on Three Types of Abduction
Umberto Eco
1983
The Sign of Three – Dupin, Holmes and Pierce
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67. The Inference to the Best Explanation
Gilbert Harman
1965
The Philosophical Review
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