Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English
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22 décembre 2020
- handle: 10670/1.5zw1vf
- doi: 10.46298/jdmdh.5756
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historical corpora text analysis stylistics correspondence analysis stylometry n-grams visualization techniquesSujets proches
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Thijs Lubbers et al., « Visualizing the development of prose styles in Horse Manuals from Early Modern English to Present-Day English », Episciences.org, ID : 10.46298/jdmdh.5756
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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.