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Hi, > > > My query is this: my planned study is of a weekly sample of newspapers > texts over a 5/6 year period. The "quantitative" aim of the study is, > simply, word counts; that is, to look for the incidence of particular > words over the course of the study. I also hope to track particular > word/conceptual associations - the type of thing, that I'm told, is the > staple of qualitative CA programs. Is there a program that could do BOTH > of these tasks (perhaps there're several?), with the power, in turn, > to handle what will be a very large amount of text data? > > > > Nudist is one program that's been recommended to me by others. Its > website has an older version, the N4 Classic, available to students for > £60: would this program do the job for me? Only the qualitative part. As Alan Cartwrigth said, his program does both. My program TextQuest (http://www.textquest.de) is for the quantitative approach using dictionaries, but it can also generate word lists very fast, also list of word sequences like "United States" or "European Union". For an overview on text analysis software, see my page at http://www.intext.de/textanae.html containing overviews and a lot of links. HTH Harald