Počítačová textová analýza metodou sledování spoluvýskytů slov

• Authors: Martin Hájek

Title variants

EN

COMPUTER-ASSISTED TEXT ANALYSIS

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article presents a method for computer-assisted text analysis, which has been employed by the author in a number of studies. The inductive methodology is based on a frequency count analysis of the co-occurrence of words; and a visualization of the results of this text analysis in a two dimensional space. The main advantage of this text analysis technique is its potential for (a) exploring large amounts of textual data without any pre-coded or theoretically laden vocabularies or thesauri; and (b) the extraction of discursive patterns often only detectable in an a posteriori expert analysis. An example is used to demonstrate the use of this computer assisted text analysis method through an analysis of the transcripts of biographical interviews exploring life in Czech socialist society. The analysis presented uncovers both shared and distinctive discursive patterns found in the narratives of the interviewees who come from two distinct social groups.

Keywords

EN

TEXT ANALYSIS; NARRATIVE BIOGRAPHY

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Data a výzkum - SDA Info (Data and Research - SDA Info)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 4
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 19-37

Contributors

author

Martin Hájek

• ISS FSV UK, U Kříže 8, Praha 5 Jinonice, 158 00, Czech Republic