Download or read book Text Analysis for the Social Sciences written by Carl W. Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides descriptions and illustrations of cutting-edge text analysis methods for communication and market research, cultural, historical-comparative, and event analysis, curriculum evaluation, psychological diagnosis, language development research, and for any research in which statistical inferences are drawn from samples of texts. Although the book is accessible to readers having no experience with content analysis, the text analysis expert will find substantial new material in its pages. The methods presented here will be useful for international research, as well as for practitioners from the fields of sociology, political science, journalism/communication, computer science, marketing, education, and English.