Authors: Roberto Franzosi Sophie Doyle Laura E McClelland Caddie Putnam Rankin Stefania Vicari
Publish Date: 2012/04/27
Volume: 47, Issue: 6, Pages: 3219-3247
Abstract
This paper shows how to carry out quantitative narrative analysis QNA with different text analysis software PCACE Program for ComputerAssisted Coding of Events and various CAQDAS programs ComputerAssisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software ATLASti MAXQDA and NVivo QNA is a methodological approach to narrative texts that exploits invariant properties of narrative namely a “story grammar” based on actors actions and their attributes to make a statistical analysis of words possible In comparing PCACE and CAQDAS the paper leads the reader through the steps involved in setting up a grammar in data entry and in data query A careful comparison of limits and possibilities of the two types of software will allow the reader interested in QNA to make an informed choice between a full implementation of QNA in a specialized but unknown software PCACE and a limited implementation in any of the widely used and popular CAQDAS programs
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