A serious request

Steve Mizrach (SEEKER1@NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU)
Wed, 28 Sep 1994 01:14:17 +0000

I so rarely make serious requests for help on this list, but in this case,
I feel the need to tap ANTHRO-L's collective expertise.

I have been searching the literature on content analysis, and have found
the lion's share of it to be by journalism & communication scholars, with
the rest being mostly by linguists.

Does anyone know of any books and/or articles dealing with the use of
content analysis by linguistic and/or cultural anthropologists?
Specifically, computer-based text analysis? And of the type that goes
beyond just "word counting" and simple quantitative measures?

(Yes, I know we're supposed to deal with people, not with their texts, like
those neer-do-well lousy 'cultural studies' types. But hey, people MAKE
texts, you know, and those texts may be a key as to what kindsa people they
are.)

Yours,


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