The Investigation of Contiguity: Co-Occurrence Analysis of Print Media Using CD-ROMs as a New Data Source, Illustrated by a Discussion on Migrant Delinquency in a Daily Newspaper

摘要: According to the research on delegitimization, negative stereotypes, prejudices, and verbal discrimination are based contiguities of person categories devaluations mainly in area delinquency. The extent which can be economically systematically ascertained is demonstrated by computer-assisted co-occurrence analysis, where understood as simultaneous appearance occurrences a counting unit such sentence or paragraph. This study documents how terms foreigners crime appeared Neue Zurcher Zeitung (NZZ) from 1993 1995 using new procedure with CD-ROM. Subject matter, well hypothesis that connection between two became weaker after an antiracism plebiscite, investigated. It was possible broadly confirm these hypotheses basis material compared. studypoints out thepossibility ofperceiving latent early. at hand, however, onlyprovides clues ho...