From Text to Political Positions
Text analysis across disciplines
Editors
| VU University Amsterdam
| VU University Amsterdam
| VU University Amsterdam
From Text to Political Positions addresses cross-disciplinary innovation in political text analysis for party positioning. Drawing on political science, computational methods and discourse analysis, it presents a diverse collection of analytical models including pure quantitative and qualitative approaches. By bringing together the prevailing text-analysis methods from each discipline the volume aims to alert researchers to new and exciting possibilities of text analyses across their own disciplinary boundary.
The volume builds on the fact that each of the disciplines has a common interest in extracting information from political texts. The focus on political texts thus facilitates interdisciplinary cross-overs. The volume also includes chapters combining methods as examples of cross-disciplinary endeavours. These chapters present an open discussion of the constraints and (dis)advantages of either quantitative or qualitative methods when evaluating the possibilities of combining analytic tools.
The volume builds on the fact that each of the disciplines has a common interest in extracting information from political texts. The focus on political texts thus facilitates interdisciplinary cross-overs. The volume also includes chapters combining methods as examples of cross-disciplinary endeavours. These chapters present an open discussion of the constraints and (dis)advantages of either quantitative or qualitative methods when evaluating the possibilities of combining analytic tools.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 55] 2014. xi, 333 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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vii–xii
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1–20
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PART I. Computational Methods for Political Text Analysis
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23–26
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27–46
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47–70
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71–92
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93–116
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117–134
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135–160
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PART II. From Text to Political Positions via Discourse Analysis
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163–170
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171–188
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189–206
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207–224
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225–244
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245–268
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PART III. Converging methods
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271–274
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275–296
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297–324
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About the authors
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325–330
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Index
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331–333
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“
From Text to Political Positions is a timely addition to the literature on estimating parties’ positions. The novel perspective of this highly readable volume can serve as a guide for applied researchers who do not wish to remain entrenched within disciplinary traditions.”
Kostas Gemenis, University of Twente, The Netherlands
“This important volume of essays adds significantly to the growing interest in textual and discourse analysis in the field of politics and party positioning. Not only does it address the pressing question of research methodology, choosing to combine qualitative and quantitative techniques and approaches in a cross-disciplinary matrix, but the internationally renowned contributors also endeavour to provide normative and critical orientations to back up their original theoretical and empirical analyses.”
David Howarth, University of Essex, UK
“This volume is a valuable contribution to political text analysis, as well as computational linguistics and discourse analysis, which enriches developments in relevant fields and gives readers much inspirations and references.”
Zhongyi Xu, Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages; Lancaster University, in Journal of Language and Politics 16:6 (2017)
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Subjects
Communication Studies
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General