Quantifying Approaches To Discourse For Social Scientists

Part A. Introductory Remarks. Chapter 1. Understanding 21st Century Societies using Quantifying Text Processing Methods Ronny Scholz. Chapter 2. Beyond the quantitative and qualitative cleavage: Confluence of research operations in discourse analysis Jules Duchastel and Danielle Laberge. Part B. Analysing the Institutional Contexts of Discourses. Chapter 3. The academic dispositive: Towards a contextcentred discourse analysis Julian Hamann, Jens Maesse, Ronny Scholz and Johannes Angermuller. Chapter 4. On the social uses of scientometrics: The quantification of academic evaluation and the rise of numerocracy in higher education Johannes Angermuller and Thed van Leeuwen. Part C. Exploring Corpora: Heuristics, Topic Modelling and Text Mining. Chapter 5. Lexicometry: A quantifying heuristic for social scientist in discourse studies Ronny Scholz. Chapter 6. Words and Facts: Textual Analysis: Topic Centred Methods for Social Scientists Karl M. van Meter. Chapter 7. Text mining for discourse analysis: An exemplary study of the debate on minimum wages in Germany Gregor Wiedemann. Part D. New Developments in Corpus Assisted Discourse Studies. Chapter 8. The Value of Revisiting and Extending Previous Studies: the case of Islam in the UK press Paul Baker and Tony McEnery. Chapter 9. The Linguistic Construction of World ? an Example of Visual Analysis and Methodological Challenges Noah Bubenhofer, Klaus Rothenh?usler, Katrin Affolter, Danica Pajovic. Chapter 10. MultiMethod Discourse Analysis of Twitter Communication: A Comparison of Two Global Political Issues Jo?rn Stegmeier, Wolf J. Schu?nemann, Marcus Mu?ller, Maria Becker, Stefan Steiger and Sebastian Stier.