
Electronic Texts in the Humanities
Principles and Practice
Susan Hockey(Author)
Oxford University Press
Published on 23. November 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
228 pages
978-0-19-871195-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
A lucid introduction to the technical parameters of the field of digital document management from the perspective of the humanities . * Modernism/Modernity * Susan Hockey's informative handbook about what computers do and might do for analysers of literature and language is an engaging cross between a travelogue, a manufacturer's manual and a cookbook * Valentine Cunningham, Times Higher Education Supplement * 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 * Valentine Cunningham, Times Higher Education Supplement *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
9 figures
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
333 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-871195-7 (9780198711957)
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Book
11/2000
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Person
Susan Hockey is Professor of Library and Information Studies, University College London
Author
Professor of Library and Information StudiesProfessor of Library and Information Studies, University College London
Content
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