Analyzing Discourse: Textual Analysis for Social Research

Analyzing Social Networks Services Using Formal Concept Analysis Research Toolbox

Nowadays social data analysts use a complicated mix of languages, methods and technologies for analyzing social networks services (SNS) data. In this article we describe approaches and technologies for extracting, analyzing and visualizing social data using Formal Concept Analysis Research Toolbox (FCART). Integrated process of analyzing SNS data with a set of research tools based on Formal Con...

Mining Discourse Markers For Chinese Textual Summarization

Discourse markers foreshadow the message thrust of texts and saliently guide their rhetorical structure which are important for content filtering and text abstraction. This paper reports on efforts to automatically identify and classify discourse markers in Chinese texts using heuristic-based and corpus-based data-mining methods, as an integral part of automatic text summarization via rhetorica...

Analyzing Political Discourse in On-line Social Networks

Textual moments in biotechnology discourse

In an article published in the Journal of Sociolinguistics (2000: 164), Fairclough stresses the importance of working ‘in a transdisciplinary way’ by combining language and social theory. He also makes the claim that social theorists fail to show how language operates in social life within social research – possibly because social theorists tend to pay too little attention to the role played by...

PRACTICE QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Discourse analysis

What is discourse analysis? Discourse analysis is about studying and analysing the uses of language. Because the term is used in many different ways, we have simplified approaches to discourse analysis into three clusters (table 1) and illustrated how each of these approachesmight be used to study a single domain: doctor-patient communication about diabetes management (table 2). Regardless of a...