Text analysis for the social sciences
Subtitle: methods for drawing statistical inferences from texts and transcripts
By: edited by Carl W. Roberts.
Contributors: Roberts, Carl W.
Series: LEA's communication series
Publisher: Erlbaum
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Mahwah NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
Subjects: Social sciences -- Methodology.; Content analysis (Communication); Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology.
Description: This book provides descriptions and illustrations of cutting-edge text analysis methods for communication and market research, cultural, historical-comparative, and event analysis, curriculum evaluation, psychological diagnosis, language development research, and for any research in which statistical inferences are drawn from samples of texts. Although the book is accessible to readers having no experience with content analysis, the text analysis expert will find substantial new material in its pages.

The methods presented here will be useful for international research, as well as for practitioners from the fields of sociology, political science, journalism/communication, computer science, marketing, education, and English.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.