Positions of Parties and Political Cleavages between Parties in Texts
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Jan Kleinnijenhuis
Abstract
If humans are political animals, and language is their most versatile communication tool, then the old question about what should be extracted from political texts to understand politics deserves on-going attention. Recent advances in the information and communication sciences have resulted in new means to process political texts, especially advances in the domains of knowledge representation, natural language parsing, automated content analysis and semantic web technologies. However, applying these innovations to uncover what matters in politics is far from trivial. The aim of this chapter is to give an introduction to an analysis of political texts aimed at inferring their political meaning.
Abstract
If humans are political animals, and language is their most versatile communication tool, then the old question about what should be extracted from political texts to understand politics deserves on-going attention. Recent advances in the information and communication sciences have resulted in new means to process political texts, especially advances in the domains of knowledge representation, natural language parsing, automated content analysis and semantic web technologies. However, applying these innovations to uncover what matters in politics is far from trivial. The aim of this chapter is to give an introduction to an analysis of political texts aimed at inferring their political meaning.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Positions of Parties and Political Cleavages between Parties in Texts 1
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PART I. Computational Methods for Political Text Analysis
- PART I: Introduction 23
- Comparing the Position of Canadian Political Parties using French and English Manifestos as Textual Data 27
- Leveraging Textual Sentiment Analysis with Social Network Modelling 47
- Issue Framing and Language Use in the Swedish Blogosphere 71
- Text to Ideology or Text to Party Status? 93
- Sentiment Analysis in Parliamentary Proceedings 117
- The Qualitative Analysis of Political Documents 135
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PART II. From Text to Political Positions via Discourse Analysis
- PART II: Introduction 163
- The Potential of Narrative Strategies in the Discursive Construction of Hegemonic Positions and Social Change 171
- Christians, Feminists, Liberals, Socialists, Workers and Employers 189
- Between Union and a United Ireland 207
- Systematic Stylistic Analysis 225
- Participation and recontextualisation in New Media 245
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PART III. Converging methods
- PART III: Introduction 271
- From Text to the Construction of Political Party Landscapes 275
- From Text to Political Positions 297
- About the authors 325
- Index 331
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Positions of Parties and Political Cleavages between Parties in Texts 1
-
PART I. Computational Methods for Political Text Analysis
- PART I: Introduction 23
- Comparing the Position of Canadian Political Parties using French and English Manifestos as Textual Data 27
- Leveraging Textual Sentiment Analysis with Social Network Modelling 47
- Issue Framing and Language Use in the Swedish Blogosphere 71
- Text to Ideology or Text to Party Status? 93
- Sentiment Analysis in Parliamentary Proceedings 117
- The Qualitative Analysis of Political Documents 135
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PART II. From Text to Political Positions via Discourse Analysis
- PART II: Introduction 163
- The Potential of Narrative Strategies in the Discursive Construction of Hegemonic Positions and Social Change 171
- Christians, Feminists, Liberals, Socialists, Workers and Employers 189
- Between Union and a United Ireland 207
- Systematic Stylistic Analysis 225
- Participation and recontextualisation in New Media 245
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PART III. Converging methods
- PART III: Introduction 271
- From Text to the Construction of Political Party Landscapes 275
- From Text to Political Positions 297
- About the authors 325
- Index 331
