From Words to Numbers: Narrative, Data, and Social Science (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Series Number 22) - Softcover
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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).
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From Words to Numbers departs radically from traditional content analysis approaches to the quantitative study of texts. It is based on a rigorous linguistic theory of narrative, rather than the ad-hoc approaches of context analysis. Furthermore, it sows words to through an elegant mathematical t hread. Finally, it has engaged narrative structures dominated by the metaphors of the "journey" (from words to numbers) and the alchemy" (words into numbers).
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