How To Analyse Texts

Author : Ronald Carter,Angela Goddard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317405528

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How to Analyse Texts by Ronald Carter,Angela Goddard Pdf

How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts – spoken, written and multimodal. The book constitutes a flexible resource which can be used in different ways across a range of courses and at different levels. This textbook includes: three parts covering research and study skills, language structure and use, and how texts operate in sociocultural contexts a wide range of international real-life texts, including items from South China Morning Post, art’otel Berlin and Metro Sweden, which cover digital and print media, advertising, recipes and much more objectives and skill review for each section, activities, commentaries, suggestions for independent assignments, and an analysis checklist for students to follow a combined glossary and index and a comprehensive further reading section a companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/goddard with further links and exercises for students. Written by two experienced teachers of English Language, How to Analyse Texts is key reading for all students of English language and linguistics.

Author : Robin Jeffrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : OCLC:1097143261

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About Writing by Robin Jeffrey Pdf

Author : Mr Rod Watson
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781409491965

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Analysing Practical and Professional Texts by Mr Rod Watson Pdf

Analysing Practical and Professional Texts focuses on texts as constituents of human usage, showing how written documents and other 'texts' are integral to social organization. It reveals social organization itself to be not only textually-mediated in nature, but also textually-constituted, showing how texts – professional, technical or otherwise – as well as various social-scientific methodologies employ the resources of ordinary language. Theoretically sophisticated and illustrated with empirical examples, this book will be of interest not only to those with interests in ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, but also to social scientists and anthropologists concerned with text analysis, textual sense and the 'linguistic turn' in the methods of their own disciplines.

Author : Dan Allosso,Salvatore F. Allosso
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 1466229101

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A Short Handbook for Writing Essays in the Humanities and Social Sciences by Dan Allosso,Salvatore F. Allosso Pdf

Practical advice on finding a topic, organizing an argument, and writing an effective essay. Includes detailed discussions of how to write clear paragraphs and effective sentences, using dozens of examples from actual student essays.

Author : Matthew L. Jockers,Rosamond Thalken
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030396435

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Text Analysis with R by Matthew L. Jockers,Rosamond Thalken Pdf

Now in its second edition, Text Analysis with R provides a practical introduction to computational text analysis using the open source programming language R. R is an extremely popular programming language, used throughout the sciences; due to its accessibility, R is now used increasingly in other research areas. In this volume, readers immediately begin working with text, and each chapter examines a new technique or process, allowing readers to obtain a broad exposure to core R procedures and a fundamental understanding of the possibilities of computational text analysis at both the micro and the macro scale. Each chapter builds on its predecessor as readers move from small scale “microanalysis” of single texts to large scale “macroanalysis” of text corpora, and each concludes with a set of practice exercises that reinforce and expand upon the chapter lessons. The book’s focus is on making the technical palatable and making the technical useful and immediately gratifying. Text Analysis with R is written with students and scholars of literature in mind but will be applicable to other humanists and social scientists wishing to extend their methodological toolkit to include quantitative and computational approaches to the study of text. Computation provides access to information in text that readers simply cannot gather using traditional qualitative methods of close reading and human synthesis. This new edition features two new chapters: one that introduces dplyr and tidyr in the context of parsing and analyzing dramatic texts to extract speaker and receiver data, and one on sentiment analysis using the syuzhet package. It is also filled with updated material in every chapter to integrate new developments in the field, current practices in R style, and the use of more efficient algorithms.

Author : Ronald Carter,Angela Goddard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317405535

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How to Analyse Texts by Ronald Carter,Angela Goddard Pdf

How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts – spoken, written and multimodal. The book constitutes a flexible resource which can be used in different ways across a range of courses and at different levels. This textbook includes: three parts covering research and study skills, language structure and use, and how texts operate in sociocultural contexts a wide range of international real-life texts, including items from South China Morning Post, art’otel Berlin and Metro Sweden, which cover digital and print media, advertising, recipes and much more objectives and skill review for each section, activities, commentaries, suggestions for independent assignments, and an analysis checklist for students to follow a combined glossary and index and a comprehensive further reading section a companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/goddard with further links and exercises for students. Written by two experienced teachers of English Language, How to Analyse Texts is key reading for all students of English language and linguistics.

Author : Udo Kuckartz
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781446297766

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Qualitative Text Analysis by Udo Kuckartz Pdf

How can you analyse narratives, interviews, field notes, or focus group data? Qualitative text analysis is ideal for these types of data and this textbook provides a hands-on introduction to the method and its theoretical underpinnings. It offers step-by-step instructions for implementing the three principal types of qualitative text analysis: thematic, evaluative, and type-building. Special attention is paid to how to present your results and use qualitative data analysis software packages, which are highly recommended for use in combination with qualitative text analysis since they allow for fast, reliable, and more accurate analysis. The book shows in detail how to use software, from transcribing the verbal data to presenting and visualizing the results. The book is intended for Master’s and Doctoral students across the social sciences and for all researchers concerned with the systematic analysis of texts of any kind.

Author : Charles Bazerman,Paul Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135649692

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What Writing Does and How It Does It by Charles Bazerman,Paul Prior Pdf

In What Writing Does and How It Does It, editors Charles Bazerman and Paul Prior offer a sophisticated introduction to methods for understanding, studying, and analyzing texts and writing practices. This volume addresses a variety of approaches to analyzing texts, and considers the processes of writing, exploring textual practices and their contexts, and examining what texts do and how texts mean rather than what they mean. Included are traditional modes of analysis (rhetorical, literary, linguistic), as well as newer modes, such as text and talk, genre and activity analysis, and intertextual analysis. The chapters have been developed to provide answers to a specified set of questions, with each one offering: *a preview of the chapter's content and purpose; *an introduction to basic concepts, referring to key theoretical and research studies in the area; *details on the types of data and questions for which the analysis is best used; *examples from a wide-ranging group of texts, including educational materials, student writing, published literature, and online and electronic media; *one or more applied analyses, with a clear statement of procedures for analysis and illustrations of a particular sample of data; and *a brief summary, suggestions for additional readings, and a set of activities. The side-by-side comparison of methods allows the reader to see the multi-dimensionality of writing, facilitating selection of the best method for a particular research question. The volume contributors are experts from linguistics, communication studies, rhetoric, literary analysis, document design, sociolinguistics, education, ethnography, and cultural psychology, and each utilizes a specific mode of text analysis. With its broad range of methodological examples, What Writing Does and How It Does It is a unique and invaluable resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and for researchers in education, composition, ESL and applied linguistics, communication, L1 and L2 learning, print media, and electronic media. It will also be useful in all social sciences and humanities that place importance on texts and textual practices, such as English, writing, and rhetoric.

Author : Carl W. Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000149241

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Text Analysis for the Social Sciences by Carl W. Roberts Pdf

This book provides descriptions and illustrations of cutting-edge text analysis methods for communication and marketing 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. In particular, this collection describes developments in semantic and network text analysis methodologies that heretofore have been accessible only among a smattering of methodology journals. The book's international and cross-disciplinary content illustrates the breadth of quantitative text analysis applications. These applications demonstrate the methods' utility for international research, as well as for practitioners from the fields of sociology, political science, journalism/communication, computer science, marketing, education, and English. This is an "ecumenical" collection that contains applications not only of the most recent semantic and network text analysis methods, but also of the more traditional thematic method of text analysis. In fact, it is originally with this volume that these two "relational" approaches to text analysis are defined and contrasted with more traditional "thematic" text analysis methods. The emphasis here is on application. The book's chapters provide guidance regarding the sorts of inferences that each method affords, and up-to-date descriptions of the human and technological resources required to apply the methods. Its purpose is as a resource for making quantitative text analysis methods more accessible to social science researchers.

Author : Julia Silge,David Robinson
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781491981627

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Text Mining with R by Julia Silge,David Robinson Pdf

Chapter 7. Case Study : Comparing Twitter Archives; Getting the Data and Distribution of Tweets; Word Frequencies; Comparing Word Usage; Changes in Word Use; Favorites and Retweets; Summary; Chapter 8. Case Study : Mining NASA Metadata; How Data Is Organized at NASA; Wrangling and Tidying the Data; Some Initial Simple Exploration; Word Co-ocurrences and Correlations; Networks of Description and Title Words; Networks of Keywords; Calculating tf-idf for the Description Fields; What Is tf-idf for the Description Field Words?; Connecting Description Fields to Keywords; Topic Modeling.

Author : Gillespie, Marie,Toynbee, Jason
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335218868

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Analysing Media Texts (Volume 4) by Gillespie, Marie,Toynbee, Jason Pdf

Provides an introduction to analysing media texts. This book with its award winning DVD, helps students learn how to do semiotic, genre and narrative analysis, content and discourse analysis, and engage with debates about the politics of representation.

Author : Kristina Boréus,Göran Bergström
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781473965676

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Analyzing Text and Discourse by Kristina Boréus,Göran Bergström Pdf

Clearly setting out the advantages and disadvantages of each methodology, and providing real-world examples of when the methodology has been used successfully, this introduction makes it easy for students to assess which approach would be best for their research and to implement it successfully.

Author : Alayna Cole,Dakoda Barker
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781000329711

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Games as Texts by Alayna Cole,Dakoda Barker Pdf

Games as Texts provides an overview and practical steps for analysing games in terms of their representations of social structures, class, power, race, sexuality, gender, animals, nature, and ability. Each chapter applies a traditional literary theory to the narrative and mechanics of games and explores the social commentary the games encourage. This approach demonstrates to players, researchers, games media, and non-gamers how they can engage with these cultural artefacts through both critical reading and theoretical interpretations. Key Features: Explores games through various literary and theoretical lenses Provides exemplar analysis and guiding questions to help readers think critically about games Highlights the social commentary that all texts can reveal—including games—and how this impacts narrative and mechanics

Author : Stefan Titscher,Michael Meyer,Ruth Wodak,Eva Vetter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781446232842

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Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis by Stefan Titscher,Michael Meyer,Ruth Wodak,Eva Vetter Pdf

′This volume is the most comprehensive overview to date of sociologically orientated approaches to text and discourse analysis and is worth reading even for those who are interested only in purely linguistiv approaches to text and discourse. Its main merit, I think, is that it intorduces approaches which up to now have hardley been admitted into the universe of scientific discourse′ - Discourse Studies Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis provides the most comprehensive overview currently available of linguistic and sociological approaches to text and discourse analysis. Among the 10 linguistic and sociological models surveyed in this book some of the more important are Grounded Theory, Content Analysis, Conversation Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. The book presents each approach according to a standardised format, which allows for direct systematic comparisons. The fully annotated lists of sources provide readers with an additional means of evaluation of the competing analytical methods. Interdisciplinary and international in its aims, Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis suggests the benefits both linguists and sociologists will derive from a more intimate knowledge of each others′ methods and procedures.

Author : Mikko Lehtonen
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2000-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412932721

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The Cultural Analysis of Texts by Mikko Lehtonen Pdf

Drawing upon a range of perspectives from textual and cultural studies, this book synthesizes textual, contextual and audience analysis into an overall picture of meaning making. Using examples ranging from Balzac to blonde jokes, modernist poetry to pop lyrics, the book discusses the factors that contribute to the fomation of meaning: language, media, texts, contexts and readers. In the cultural study of texts - texts, contexts and practices - are equally important, the author argues. Meaning making takes place in the articulation between these different elements. But how can one examine all three areas at the same time? In The Cultural Analysis of Texts, Mikko Lehtonen develops a model to enable just such an approach.