Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice

by Susan Hockey

Overview

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 also assesses the ways in which research in corpus and computational linguistics can feed into better electronic tools for humanities research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198711940
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/25/2001
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	8.34(w) x 6.36(h) x 0.77(d)

About the Author

Susan Hockey is Professor of Library and Information Studies, University College London

Table of Contents

List of Figures1. Why Electronic Texts? 2. Creating and Acquiring Electronic Texts3. Text Encoding4. Concordance and Text Retrieval Programs5. Literary Analysis6. Linguistic Analysis7. Stylometry and Attribution Studies8. Textual Criticism and Electronic Editions9. Dictionaries and Lexical Databases10. Where Next? Bibliography Index