Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English
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 investigation...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nicolas Turenne
2020-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities |
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| Online Access: | https://jdmdh.episciences.org/5756/pdf |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 2416-5999 |