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Item Details
Title:
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FROM WORDS TO NUMBERS
NARRATIVE, DATA, AND SOCIAL SCIENCE |
By: |
Roberto P. Franzosi |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£76.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0521815207 |
ISBN 13: |
9780521815208 |
Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
Pub. date: |
24 May, 2004 |
Series: |
Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences No.22 |
Pages: |
500 |
Description: |
This book offers a a way to analyze narrative data in socio-historical research. |
Synopsis: |
This 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. A story grammar, or Subject-Action-Object and their modifiers, is the linguistic tool the author uses to structure narrative for the purpose of collecting event data. Relational database models make such complex data collection schemes practically feasible in a computer environment. Finally, network models are a statistical tool best suited to analyze this type of data. Driven by the metaphors of the journal (from ...to) and the alchemy (words into numbers), the book leads the reader throughout a number of paths, from substantive to methodological issues, across time and disciplines: sociology, linguistics, literary criticism, history, statistics, computer science, philosophy, cognitive psychology, political science. |
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Illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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Returnable |
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