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Zusatztext Much of Hockey's value is in relaying not only other people's electronic methods and results, but also in passing on well-deserved doubts and scepticisms. Informationen zum Autor Susan Hockey is Professor of Library and Information Studies, University College London Klappentext This book introduces a range of tools and techniques for manipulating and analysing electronic texts in the humanities. It shows how electronic texts can be used for the literary analysis, linguistic analysis, authorship attribution, and the preparation and publication of electronic scholarly editions. It also assesses the ways in which research in corpus and computational linguistics can feed into better electronic tools for humanities research. Zusammenfassung With word processing and the Internet, computing is much more part and parcel of the everyday life of the humanities scholar, but computers can do much more than assist with writing or Internet searching. This book introduces a range of tools and techniques for manipulating and analysing electronic texts in the humanities. It shows how electronic texts can be used for the literary analysis, linguistic analysis, authorship attribution, and the preparation and publication of electronic scholarly editions. It assesses the ways in which research in corpus and computational linguistics can feed into better electronic tools for humanities research. The tools and techniques discussed in this book will feed into better Internet tools and pave the way for the electronic scholar of the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures 1: Why Electronic Texts? 2: Creating and Acquiring Electronic Texts 3: Text Encoding 4: Concordance and Text Retrieval Programs 5: Literary Analysis 6: Linguistic Analysis 7: Stylometry and Attribution Studies 8: Textual Criticism and Electronic Editions 9: Dictionaries and Lexical Databases 10: Where Next? Bibliography Index ...
