Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution - Computational Linguistics and History

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material.This book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally. Focussing on the topic of prostitution in 17th-century England, it shows how corpus methods can assist in social research, and can be used to deepen our understanding and comprehension.McEnery and Baker draw principally on two sources - the newsbook Mercurius Fumigosis and the Early English Books Online Corpus. This scholarship on prostitution and the sex trade offers insight into the social position of women in history.>

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Corpus Linguistics and History
Part I: Historical Context
2. Prostitution in England
3. Attitudes to Prostitution in the Seventeenth Century
Part II: Corpus Investigation
4. Representation
5. Society
6. Words
Part III: Synthesis
7. The Corpus Insight
8. The Utility of Corpus Data in History and the Humanities
Bibliography
Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Professor Tony McEnery is a corpus linguist working at the University of Lancaster, UK

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dr Helen Baker, Dr Helen (University of Lancaster Baker, Helen Baker, Helen (University of Lancaster Baker, Anthony McEnery, Anthony (University of Lancaster Mcenery, Anthony Baker Mcenery, Professor Anthony McEnery, Professor Anthony (University of Lancaste Mcenery, Professor Anthony (University of Lancaster McEnery
• Mitarbeit: Michaela Mahlberg (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781350075283
• ISBN: 978-1-350-07528-3
• Seiten: 272
• Serien: Corpus and Discourse; Corpus and Discourse; Criminal Practice Series
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Prostitution & Sex Trade, c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Sociology: sexual relations, Computational Linguistics, Ethical issues and debates, Computational and corpus linguistics