This book covers the topic of discourse and argumentation in archaeology with an aim to serve the archaeology community. The book presents discourse and argument analysis approaches and techniques in an affordable manner and applied to archaeological situations. It focuses on techniques and approaches that can be applicable to multiple situations, periods and cultures.
The book begins with an introduction to discourse and argumentation analysis as a general field and also as an auxiliary technique to archaeology. The work includes conceptual applications, ranging from causality, ontological connections, vagueness, social production of discourse and public debates. The work also devotes a section to computational approaches and describes the specifics of some well-known families of algorithms such as lexical processing, information extraction or sentiment analysis. The conclusion comments on the future and which reflects on the previous chapters and discusses how the presented techniques and approaches should be adapted or improved for easier and more powerful application to archaeology. Contributing authors bring perspectives from archaeology, linguistics, and computer science.
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez
Archaeological Argumentation Archaeological Discourse Argumentation in Context and Archaeology Discourse Modelling and Archaeology Discourse Vagueness and Archaeology Named Entity Recognition Natural Language Processing Discourse Analysis and Argumentation in Archaeology Factual Argumentation in Archaeology Causality Analysis in Archaeology Making Good Arguments in Archaeology Connecting Archaeological Discourse and Ontologies Social Production of Discourse in Archaeology Vagueness in Archaeological Discourses Argument Analysis of Public Debates about Cultural Objects
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