From Words to Numbers

Departing radically from traditional content analysis approaches to the quantitative study of texts this work is based on a linguistic theory of narrative rather than the ad hoc approaches of context analysis. The book illustrates a set of tools--story grammars relational data models and network models--that can be profitably used for the collection organization and analysis of narrative data in socio-historical research (e.g. narratives of strikes demonstrations lynchings and riots).