| About the Author | | ix | |
| Series Editor's Introduction | | x | |
| Preface | | xii | |
| Acknowledgments | | xiii | |
| | xiv | |
| | xvi | |
| | xvi | |
| | 1 | (10) |
| | 1 | (1) |
| Question and Answer (How Can You Study Stories?) |
| | 2 | (2) |
| ``Words Are Beautiful: Why Turn Them Into Numbers?'' |
| | 4 | (2) |
| | 5 | (1) |
| | 6 | (2) |
| You and I: The Book and Its Audience |
| | 8 | (2) |
| | 9 | (1) |
| | 10 | (1) |
| Text Genres, Narrative, and Story Grammars |
| | 11 | (48) |
| Story and Narrative (What the Linguists Say) |
| | 11 | (3) |
| Narrative Functions, Sequences, and Invariant Structures of Narrative |
| | 14 | (1) |
| Coherence and Story Point: ``There Is No Free Lunch in America'' |
| | 14 | (2) |
| | 16 | (1) |
| | 17 | (1) |
| | 18 | (2) |
| Narrative: A Visual Summary |
| | 19 | (1) |
| Zooming Into the Narrative Clause |
| | 20 | (3) |
| | 21 | (1) |
| | 21 | (1) |
| | 22 | (1) |
| | 23 | (1) |
| A Story Grammar for Sociohistorical Research |
| | 23 | (10) |
| Simple Examples of Coding |
| | 28 | (1) |
| | 28 | (3) |
| So What? (A Story Point of My Own) |
| | 31 | (1) |
| Of Narrative Elements and Limits to QNA |
| | 32 | (1) |
| What Social Scientists Have to Say About Texts: Content Analysis |
| | 33 | (8) |
| | 34 | (1) |
| QNA and Content Analysis: Spelling Out the Differences |
| | 34 | (2) |
| Hypothesis-Free Data? Limits to a Claim |
| | 36 | (1) |
| Interview Data and Narrative |
| | 37 | (4) |
| What Social Scientists Have to Say About Narrative |
| | 41 | (3) |
| Protest Event Analysis (PEA) |
| | 43 | (1) |
| | 44 | (1) |
| Question and Answer (Which Structure?) |
| | 44 | (2) |
| Question and Answer (What If My Texts Are Not Narrative?) |
| | 46 | (7) |
| | 46 | (3) |
| Turn to Rhetoric for Help |
| | 49 | (2) |
| And Don't Forget Content Analysis |
| | 51 | (1) |
| Relations! Relations! Relations! |
| | 51 | (1) |
| | 52 | (1) |
| Story Sequences (The Main Points About Narrative) |
| | 53 | (2) |
| | 55 | (4) |
| Computer Storage and Retrieval of Narrative Information |
| | 59 | (48) |
| Question and Answer (Where Are the Numbers?) |
| | 59 | (3) |
| No Software, No QNA, No Numbers: Available Software Options |
| | 59 | (1) |
| The Tasks Involved in QNA (How Software Can Help) |
| | 60 | (1) |
| | 60 | (1) |
| Data Verification and Cleaning |
| | 61 | (1) |
| | 61 | (1) |
| | 61 | (1) |
| | 62 | (1) |
| The Ideal Option: Do It Automatically (KEDS and IDEA) |
| | 62 | (1) |
| Beware! Don't Multiply Historical Events |
| | 62 | (1) |
| Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) |
| | 63 | (4) |
| | 64 | (3) |
| Further Options? ETHNO and AutoMap |
| | 67 | (1) |
| ``Do-It-Yourself'' Options |
| | 67 | (8) |
| | 67 | (1) |
| The RDBMS Alternative (and the Power of SQL) |
| | 68 | (6) |
| Questions For/From a Story |
| | 74 | (1) |
| A Word of Caution About the RDBMS Alternative |
| | 74 | (1) |
| A Ready-Made RDBMS Option (PC-ACE) |
| | 75 | (6) |
| A PC-ACE Application to the Rise of Italian Fascism (1919-1922) |
| | 76 | (5) |
| | 81 | (1) |
| Software Design Matters: CAQDAS Versus PC-ACE |
| | 82 | (3) |
| | 83 | (1) |
| The Golden Rules of QNA Coding |
| | 84 | (1) |
| Questions (and Answers) About Coding (Units of Analysis) |
| | 85 | (4) |
| | 87 | (1) |
| Exporting Data for Statistical Analyses |
| | 88 | (1) |
| | 89 | (7) |
| | 89 | (1) |
| | 89 | (1) |
| Checking Output Against Input |
| | 90 | (1) |
| | 90 | (1) |
| Let SQL Do the Work for You |
| | 91 | (1) |
| | 92 | (1) |
| | 93 | (1) |
| Problems With Automatic Aggregation: One More Golden Rule of QNA Coding |
| | 94 | (1) |
| Fuzzy Meaning, Fuzzy Sets |
| | 95 | (1) |
| Question and Answer (Which Software Should I Use?) |
| | 96 | (2) |
| A Note on the Organization of Coding |
| | 98 | (3) |
| Coding and Aggregating: Some Recommendations |
| | 99 | (2) |
| | 101 | (1) |
| | 102 | (5) |
| | 107 | (36) |
| Question and Answer (What Can You Do With Words?) |
| | 107 | (1) |
| Traditional Statistical Analyses (Regression Models) |
| | 108 | (1) |
| Exploiting the Properties of Narrative |
| | 109 | (18) |
| Actors and Their Actions: Network Models |
| | 109 | (5) |
| Time (and Duration): Time Series Models |
| | 114 | (4) |
| Paradox of a Journey (Two Recommendations) |
| | 118 | (1) |
| Temporal Order: Sequence Analysis |
| | 118 | (6) |
| | 124 | (3) |
| Linking Quality and Quantity: Where QNA and QCA Meet |
| | 127 | (1) |
| Question and Answer (How Do You Go From QNA to QCA?) |
| | 128 | (4) |
| The ``Thin Thread'': Set Theoretic Mathematics |
| | 132 | (1) |
| Linking the Micro and the Macro: Levels of Analysis |
| | 132 | (1) |
| One More (Serious) Limit of QNA: Meaning of Action for the Actor |
| | 132 | (1) |
| Question and Answer (Which Substantive Applications?) |
| | 133 | (1) |
| Systems of Signs (Make All Implicit Information Explicit for the Computer) |
| | 134 | (5) |
| | 135 | (1) |
| The Participants in the Clause |
| | 136 | (2) |
| Solutions to These Problems (Back to the Golden Rules of QNA Coding) |
| | 138 | (1) |
| Question and Answer (How Many Triplets Do I Need?) |
| | 139 | (1) |
| | 140 | (1) |
| | 141 | (2) |
| | 143 | (11) |
| From Words to Numbers, From Numbers to Words |
| | 143 | (1) |
| Systems of Signs and Logics of Explanation |
| | 143 | (1) |
| Text and Con.text (Beyond Questions For/From a Story) |
| | 144 | (1) |
| Tricks of the Trade (Parting Recommendations) |
| | 145 | (7) |
| Start from Your Research Question! The Telescope and the Microscope |
| | 146 | (1) |
| Get to Know Your Documents |
| | 146 | (1) |
| And Know Your Coders (The Intercoder Reliability Problem) |
| | 147 | (2) |
| | 149 | (1) |
| | 149 | (2) |
| Sampling (The Other Way Around) |
| | 151 | (1) |
| Where Should You Put Your Money? Reliability Versus Validity |
| | 151 | (1) |
| From Theory to Method, From Method to Theory |
| | 152 | (1) |
| Words and Numbers (Quality and Quantity), Awe and Humility |
| | 152 | (1) |
| | 153 | (1) |
| References | | 154 | (9) |
| Author Index | | 163 | (4) |
| Subject Index | | 167 | |
