Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution
Computational Linguistics and History
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Author(s)
McEnery, Anthony
Baker, Helen
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material.
This book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally. Focusing on the topic of prostitution in 17th-century England, it shows how corpus methods can assist in social research, and can be used to deepen our understanding and comprehension.
McEnery and Baker draw principally on two sources – the newsbook Mercurius Fumigosis and the Early English Books Online Corpus. This scholarship on prostitution and the sex trade offers insight into the social position of women in history.
Keywords
Languages; Brothel; Collocation; Corpus linguistics; Linguistics; London; Prostitution; Semantics; Text Creation PartnershipISBN
9781472506092, 9781350075283Publisher
Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher website
http://www.bloomsbury.com/academicPublication date and place
London, 2016Series
Research in Corpus and Discourse,Classification
Language teaching theory and methods