Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English

Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities

关键词: historical corpora;    text analysis;    stylistics;    correspondence analysis;    stylometry;    n-grams;    visualization techniques;    [shs.langue]humanities and social sciences/linguistics;    [scco.ling]cognitive science/linguistics;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

International audience This paper offers a data-driven analysis of the development of English prose styles in a single genre (instructive writing) dealing with a single topic (the correct way of feeding a horse) in 13 texts with publication dates ranging between 1565 to 2009. The texts are subjected to three investigations that offer visualizations of the findings: (i) a correspondence analysis of POS-tag trigrams; (ii) an association plot analysis; (iii) hierarchical clustering (dendrograms). As the period selected – Early Modern English to Present-Day English – does not involve any major changes in English syntax, we expect to find developments that are predominantly stylistic.

【 授权许可】

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