Statistical Textual Analysis: How nice!

Textual statistics methods were developped more than two decades ago combining differents disciplines : linguitics, discourse analysis, statistics, information technology, and survey processing.
They have been applied to a wide variety of topics (in history, marketing, sociology, etc.) and different objects: open questions, interview analysis, written transcripts, documents, novels…
Two main approaches can be identified:
* French approach [...]

Q-method

This book offers a panorama of research methods – qualitative and quantitative – used in management sciences and social sciences. It is edited by P. Roussel and F. Wacheux. The chapter I wrote is dedicated to q-method, a method designed to “study human subjectivity”, as stated by Williamsom.
Visit also the qmethod website.