Providing an uptodate picture of the main methods for the quantitativeanalysis of text this book begins by overviewing the background and theconceptual foundati... » 

Providing an uptodate picture of the main methods for the quantitativeanalysis of text this book begins by overviewing the background and theconceptual foundations of the field. The author then covers the traditionalthematic approaches of text analysis followed by an explanation of newerdevelopments in semantic and network text analysis methodologies. Finally heexamines the relationship between content analysis and other kinds of textanalysis from qualitative research linguistic analysis and informationretrieval.Computerassisted Text Analysis focuses on the methodological and practicalissues of coding and handling data including sampling reliability andvalidity issues and includes a useful appendix of computer programs for textanalysis. «