1. Foreword (by Kaal, Bertie); 2. Positions of Parties and Political Cleavages between Parties in Texts (by Kleinnijenhuis, Jan); 3. PART I. Computational Methods for Political Text Analysis; 4. PART I: Introduction (by Vossen, Piek); 5. Comparing the Position of Canadian Political Parties using French and English Manifestos as Textual Data (by Collette, Benoit); 6. Leveraging Textual Sentiment Analysis with Social Network Modelling: Sentiment Analysis of Political Blogs in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Election (by Gryc, Wojciech); 7. Issue Framing and Language Use in the Swedish Blogosphere: Changing Notions of the Outsider Concept (by Dahlberg, Stefan); 8. Text to Ideology or Text to Party Status? (by Hirst, Graeme); 9. Sentiment Analysis in Parliamentary Proceedings (by Grijzenhout, Steven); 10. The Qualitative Analysis of Political Documents (by Wesley, Jared J.); 11. PART II. From Text to Political Positions via Discourse Analysis; 12. PART II: Introduction (by Koller, Veronika); 13. The Potential of Narrative Strategies in the Discursive Construction of Hegemonic Positions and Social Change (by Montesano Montessori, Nicolina); 14. Christians, Feminists, Liberals, Socialists, Workers and Employers: The Emergence of an Unusual Discourse Coalition (by Eleveld, Anja); 15. Between Union and a United Ireland: Shifting Positions in Northern Ireland's Post-Agreement Political Discourse (by Filardo-Llamas, Laura); 16. Systematic Stylistic Analysis: The Use of a Linguistic Checklist (by Leeuwen, Maarten van); 17. Participation and recontextualisation in New Media: Political Discourse Analysis and YouTube (by Boyd, Michael S.); 18. PART III. Converging methods; 19. PART III: Introduction (by Cienki, Alan); 20. From Text to the Construction of Political Party Landscapes: A Hybrid Methodology Developed for Voting Advice Applications (by Krouwel, Andre); 21. From Text to Political Positions: The Convergence of Political, Linguistic and Discourse Analysis (by Elfrinkhof, Annemarie van); 22. About the authors; 23. Index