From Words to Numbers: Narrative, Data, and Social Science (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521541459)

Departing radically from traditional content analysis approaches to the quantitative study of texts, this work is based on a linguistic theory of narrative, rather than the ad hoc approaches of context analysis. The book illustrates a set of tools--story grammars, relational data models, and network models--that can be profitably used for the collection, organization, and analysis of narrative data in socio-historical research (e.g., narratives of strikes, demonstrations, lynchings, and riots).

Author: Roberto Franzosi,Franzosi Roberto
ISBN-10: 052154145X
ISBN-13: 9780521541459
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/24/2004
Pages: 500
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.42lbs
Size: 8.84h x 13.76w x 1.32d