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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Nicolas Turenne
2020-12-01
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-8d78b61daf11403497bfc796a7a49ea92024-03-07T16:20:07ZengNicolas TurenneJournal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities2416-59992020-12-01Special issue on...10.46298/jdmdh.57565756Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day EnglishThijs LubbersBettelou Los0University of EdinburghThis 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.https://jdmdh.episciences.org/5756/pdfhistorical corporatext analysisstylisticscorrespondence analysisstylometryn-gramsvisualization techniques[shs.langue]humanities and social sciences/linguistics[scco.ling]cognitive science/linguistics |
| spellingShingle | Thijs Lubbers Bettelou Los Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities historical corpora text analysis stylistics correspondence analysis stylometry n-grams visualization techniques [shs.langue]humanities and social sciences/linguistics [scco.ling]cognitive science/linguistics |
| title | Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English |
| title_full | Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English |
| title_fullStr | Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English |
| title_full_unstemmed | Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English |
| title_short | Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English |
| title_sort | visualizing the development of prose styles in horse manuals from early modern english to present day english |
| topic | historical corpora text analysis stylistics correspondence analysis stylometry n-grams visualization techniques [shs.langue]humanities and social sciences/linguistics [scco.ling]cognitive science/linguistics |
| url | https://jdmdh.episciences.org/5756/pdf |
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