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Semantic Change and Collective Knowledge in 18th Century Britain

Autor John Regan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 23 aug 2023
An in-depth digital investigation of several 18th-century British corpora, this book identifies shared communities of meaning in the printed British 18th century by highlighting and analysing patterns in the distribution of lexis. There are forces of attraction between words: some are more likely to keep company than others, and how words attract and repel one another is worthy of note. Charting these forces, this book demonstrates how distant reading 18th-century corpora can tell us something new, methodologically defensible and, crucially, interesting, about the most common constructions of word meanings and epistemes in the printed British 18th century. In the case studies in this book, computation brings to light some remarkable facts about collectively-produced forms of meaning, without which the most common meanings of words, and the ways of knowing that they constituted, would remain matters of conjecture rather than evidence. Providing the first investigation of collective meaning and knowledge in the British 18th century, this interdisciplinary study builds on the existing stores of close reading, praxis, and history of ideas, presenting a view constructed at scale, rather than at the level of individual texts.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350360495
ISBN-10: 135036049X
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 73 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Contributes significantly to existing knowledge of specific words and their use in 18th-century British culture, including how they reflect social change

Notă biografică

John Regan is Lecturer in Literature and the Digital at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Cuprins

IntroductionPart I: New Digital Insights into Collective Meaning1.'Beauty' and the 'Beautiful': Semantic Difference at Scale2. The Cases of 'Perception' and 'Knowledge': Semantic Decay Amidst the British Print Explosion3. 'Attention': A Useful, Salutary Failure4. 'More is Different': How the Collective View Contributes to our Knowledge of the British Eighteenth CenturyPart II: Common Conceptions of 'Slavery' across Political and Religious Discourses5.The Curious Case of the 'System of Government'6. The Evolution of the Meaning of Liberty across the British Eighteenth Century7.'Protestant' and the Antonymic Production of Collective MeaningConclusionAppendix I: Straightening Out Uneven ECCOAppendix II: How mPMI Works and Why it is Better Than Other Methods for Discovering Collective MeaningBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Exploring at scale ECCO and other corpora of 18-century texts with tools developed by researchers at the Concept Lab (Cambridge Centre for Digital Knowledge), this exciting new monograph blends expert knowledge of the period with the affordances of the digital to investigate collective meaning and knowledge formation in 18th-century Britain. For those interested in how words and their lexical associations reflect social, political, and ideological change, as well as in the revolutionary potential of distant reading large repositories of texts, this book is a rare treat.