From Text to Political Positions
Text analysis across disciplines
Editors
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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ForewordBertie Kaal, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof | pp. vii–xii
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Positions of Parties and Political Cleavages between Parties in TextsJan Kleinnijenhuis and Wouter van Atteveldt | pp. 1–20
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PART I. Computational Methods for Political Text Analysis
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PART I: IntroductionPiek Vossen | pp. 23–26
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Comparing the Position of Canadian Political Parties using French and English Manifestos as Textual DataBenôit Collette and François Pétry | pp. 27–46
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Leveraging Textual Sentiment Analysis with Social Network Modelling: Sentiment Analysis of Political Blogs in the 2008 U.S. Presidential ElectionWojciech Gryc and Karo Moilanen | pp. 47–70
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Issue Framing and Language Use in the Swedish Blogosphere: Changing Notions of the Outsider ConceptStefan Dahlberg and Magnus Sahlgren | pp. 71–92
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Text to Ideology or Text to Party Status?Graeme Hirst, Yaroslav Riabinin, Jory Graham, Magali Boizot-Roche and Colin Morris | pp. 93–116
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Sentiment Analysis in Parliamentary ProceedingsSteven Grijzenhout, Maarten Marx and Valentin Jijkoun | pp. 117–134
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The Qualitative Analysis of Political DocumentsJared J. Wesley | pp. 135–160
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PART II. From Text to Political Positions via Discourse Analysis
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PART II: IntroductionVeronika Koller | pp. 163–170
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The Potential of Narrative Strategies in the Discursive Construction of Hegemonic Positions and Social ChangeNicolina Montesano Montessori | pp. 171–188
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Christians, Feminists, Liberals, Socialists, Workers and Employers: The Emergence of an Unusual Discourse CoalitionAnja Eleveld | pp. 189–206
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Between Union and a United Ireland: Shifting Positions in Northern Ireland’s Post-Agreement Political DiscourseLaura Filardo-Llamas | pp. 207–224
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Systematic Stylistic Analysis: The Use of a Linguistic ChecklistMaarten van Leeuwen | pp. 225–244
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Participation and recontextualisation in New Media: Political Discourse Analysis and YouTubeMichael S. Boyd | pp. 245–268
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PART III. Converging methods
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PART III: IntroductionAlan Cienki | pp. 271–274
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From Text to the Construction of Political Party Landscapes: A Hybrid Methodology Developed for Voting Advice ApplicationsAndré Krouwel and Matthew Wall | pp. 275–296
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From Text to Political Positions: The Convergence of Political, Linguistic and Discourse AnalysisAnnemarie van Elfrinkhof, Isa Maks and Bertie Kaal | pp. 297–324
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About the authors | pp. 325–330
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Index | pp. 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
Main BIC Subject
CFG: Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General