[Fis] Measuring the Meaning of Words in Context

 <http://www.leydesdorff.net/meaning/MeasuringMeaning.pdf> <click here for
pdf>

Loet Leydesdorff and Iina Hellsten,

 <http://www.leydesdorff.net/meaning/index.htm> Measuring the Meaning of
Words in Contexts: An automated analysis of controversies about 'Monarch
butterflies,' 'Frankenfoods,' and 'stem cells'

Scientometrics, 67(2) (2006), forthcoming.

Co-words have been considered as carriers of meaning across different
domains in studies of science, technology, and society. Words and co-words,
however, obtain meaning in sentences, and sentences obtain meaning in their
contexts of use. At the science/society interface, words can be expected to
have different meanings: the codes of communication that provide meaning to
words differ on the varying sides of the interface. Furthermore, meanings
and interfaces may change over time. Given this structuring of meaning
across interfaces and over time, we distinguish between metaphors and
diaphors as reflexive mechanisms that facilitate the translation between
contexts. Our empirical focus is on three recent scientific controversies:
Monarch butterflies, Frankenfoods, and stem-cell therapies. This study
explores new avenues that relate the study of co-word analysis in context
with the sociological quest for the analysis and processing of meaning.

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Loet Leydesdorff
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681
 <mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net> loet@leydesdorff.net ;
<http://www.leydesdorff.net/> http://www.leydesdorff.net/

 <http://www.leydesdorff.net/knbecon> The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled,
Measured, and Simulated
 <http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126956>
The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society;
<http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126816>
The Challenge of Scientometrics

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