From Words to Numbers: Narrative, Data, and Social Science

By Roberto Franzosi

Book Overview

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).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052154145X
• ISBN13: 9780521541459
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 13.8" x 8.8"