Overview
- Explores how quantitative data can be used to account for language practices in a given society, and how it can be interpreted to better understand the structure and construction of society
- Considers both quantifying and qualitative methods in discourse analysis
- Features contributions from scholars across Linguistics, Sociology and Political Sciences
Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Analysing Institutional Contexts of Discourses
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Exploring Corpora: Heuristics, Topic Modelling and Text Mining
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New Developments in Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies
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Book Title: Quantifying Approaches to Discourse for Social Scientists
Editors: Ronny Scholz
Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97370-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97369-2Published: 10 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97370-8Published: 27 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-5990
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 320
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 18 illustrations in colour
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Knowledge - Discourse, Research Methodology, Semantics