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Quantifying Approaches to Discourse for Social Scientists

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  • © 2019

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Editors:
  1. Ronny Scholz

    1. Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

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  • Explores how quantitative data can be used to account for language practices in a given society, and how it can be interpreted to better understand the structure and construction of society
  • Considers both quantifying and qualitative methods in discourse analysis
  • Features contributions from scholars across Linguistics, Sociology and Political Sciences

Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  3. Analysing Institutional Contexts of Discourses

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. The Academic Dispositif: Towards a Context-Centred Discourse Analysis

      • Julian Hamann, Jens Maesse, Ronny Scholz, Johannes Angermuller
      Pages 51-87

    3. On the Social Uses of Scientometrics: The Quantification of Academic Evaluation and the Rise of Numerocracy in Higher Education

      • Johannes Angermuller, Thed van Leeuwen
      Pages 89-119

  5. New Developments in Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 213-213
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    2. The Value of Revisiting and Extending Previous Studies: The Case of Islam in the UK Press

      • Paul Baker, Tony McEnery
      Pages 215-249

    3. The Linguistic Construction of World: An Example of Visual Analysis and Methodological Challenges

      • Noah Bubenhofer, Klaus Rothenhäusler, Katrin Affolter, Danica Pajovic
      Pages 251-284

    4. Multi-method Discourse Analysis of Twitter Communication: A Comparison of Two Global Political Issues

      • Jörn Stegmeier, Wolf J. Schünemann, Marcus Müller, Maria Becker, Stefan Steiger, Sebastian Stier
      Pages 285-314

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 315-320
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About this book

This book provides an overview of a range of quantitative methods, presenting a thorough analytical toolbox which will be of practical use to researchers across the social sciences as they face the challenges raised by new technology-driven language practices. The book is driven by a reflexive mind-set which views quantifying methods as complementary rather than in opposition to qualitative methods, and the chapters analyse a multitude of different intra- and extra-textual context levels essential for the understanding of how meaning is (re-)constructed in society. Uniting contributions from a range of national and disciplinary traditions, the chapters in this volume bring together state-of-the-art research from British, Canadian, French, German and Swiss authors representing the fields of Political Science, Sociology, Linguistics, Computer Science and Statistics. It will be of particular interest to discourse analysts, but also to other scholars working in the digital humanitiesand with big data of any kind. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

    Ronny Scholz

About the editor

Ronny Scholz coordinates the ERC-funded DISCONEX project on academic discourses at the University of Warwick, UK. He holds a Master degree in discourse studies from the University Paris XII and a PhD in sociology and linguistics from Magdeburg and Paris-Est. His work focuses on the question of legitimisation of power in political discourses especially in the post-democratic era. He uses lexicometric tools as quantifying heuristic helping to explore new perspectives in various corpora of political discourse.







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