Diane,
You might want to consider semantic text analysis. See
Roberts, Carl W., 1997. A generic semantic grammar for quantitative
text analysis: Applications to East and West Berlin radio news
content from 1979. In: A.E. Raftery (ed.), Sociological Methodology
27. Oxford Basil Blackwell, pp. 89-129.
This article pesents the theory, and gives an example on ideological
indicators.
Roel
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> I am at the stage of reading up on method to decide how to handle 40 text
> documents looking for ideology within the text - ie how do the texts
> represent the institute from which they came to the public?
>
> I would appreciate comments on this, I think I can do one of two things -
> 1. count the words which are ideological indicators such as economic,
> values, or community type words and see how the counts compare or
> 2. code the documents and then count these indicators
>
> Problem is as I see it that the coding puts in another lay of
> interpretatation, although handled by a computer program eg ATLASTi or
> Nudist, it still has my bias in that I select the indicators to be codes -
> I still have to decide what my codes are.
> Advantage is that I can clarify the ideologies
> Opinions please?
> Regards,
> Diane Westerhuis
> Provisional Manager
> Staff Development & Continuing Education
> James Cook University
> Townsville, sunny Australia 4811 http://www.jcu.edu.au/~ccdw
> http://www.jcu.edu.au/acsup/staffdev
>
> Ph. (international 61 7) (OZ 07) 47 815868
> Fax 07 47 815838
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> I am at the stage of reading up on method to decide how to handle 40 text
> documents looking for ideology within the text - ie how do the texts
> represent the institute from which they came to the public?
>
> I would appreciate comments on this, I think I can do one of two things -
> 1. count the words which are ideological indicators such as economic,
> values, or community type words and see how the counts compare or
> 2. code the documents and then count these indicators
>
> Problem is as I see it that the coding puts in another lay of
> interpretatation, although handled by a computer program eg ATLASTi or
> Nudist, it still has my bias in that I select the indicators to be codes -
> I still have to decide what my codes are.
> Advantage is that I can clarify the ideologies
> Opinions please?
> Regards,
> Diane Westerhuis
> Provisional Manager
> Staff Development & Continuing Education
> James Cook University
> Townsville, sunny Australia 4811 http://www.jcu.edu.au/~ccdw
> http://www.jcu.edu.au/acsup/staffdev
>
> Ph. (international 61 7) (OZ 07) 47 815868
> Fax 07 47 815838
>
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