附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-287) and index.
pt. I. Setting the Scene: What is Quantified and Why? 1. Basic Terms. What do People Quantify? 2. Why do People Quantify Language? The Teaching/Therapy Reason. 3. Why do People Quantify Language? The Research Reason -- pt. II. Data Gathering for Quantification: Kinds of Instrument and Technique. 4. Overview of Four General Kinds of Approach to Data Gathering for Quantification. 5. Data for Quantification: Fully Naturalistic. 6. Data for Quantification: Quasi-naturalistic Interaction. 7. Data for Quantification: Opinion. 8. Data for Quantification: Manipulation. 9. Maximising Naturalness in the Data-gathering Phase of Language Quantification. 10. The 'Referencing' Dimension of Quantification -- pt. III. Data Analysis in Quantification: Scoring, Counting and Scale Types. 11. Overview of Scale Types: Simple Sources of Interval Scales. 12. Scoring on Interval Scales: Counts of Various Sorts. 13. Scoring on Interval Scales: Totals from Uniform Sets of Dichotomous Items.