Bibliography of textual analysis readings

This is a list of readings dealing with textual analysis, most of which were initially compiled by Brett Hirsch, Heather Froehlich, and other participants of the Folger Institute's Early Modern Digital Agendas (2013) institute for advanced topics in digital humanities. For more resources, please see the Glossary of digital humanities terms and Digital tools for textual analysis. Additional links and resources are welcome.

Adolphs, S. & R. Carter. “Point of view and semantic prosodies in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.” Poetica 58 (2002): 7–20.

Atwell, Eric. “Corpora-List Question: Citing Linguistic Corpora.” [Corpora-List]. 7 March 2013. Web. 8 August 2013 and threaded response from Angela Chambers.

Bieber, Douglas. “Representativeness in Corpus Design.” (PDF) Literary and Linguistic Computing 8, no. 4 (1993): 243–57. Web. 22 August 2013.

Burrows, J. F. Computation into criticism. A study of Jane Austen’s novels and an experiment in method. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.

Burton, Matt. “The Joy of Topic Modeling.” Mcburton.net. 21 May 2013. Web. 9 August 2013.

Carter, R. Language and creativity. The art of common talk. London: Routledge, 2004.

Conrad, S. & Biber, D. "The Frequency and Use of Lexical Bundles in Conversation and Academic Prose." In The corpus approach to lexicography, Thematischer Teil von Lexicographica. Internationales Jahrbuch für Lexicographie, Ed. W. Teubert & M. Mahlberg. 20 (2004): 56–71.

Culpeper, J. “Computers, language and characterisation: An analysis of six characters in Romeo and Juliet.” In Conversation in Life and in Literature. Ed. U. Melander-Marttala, C. Östman, M. Kytö. Uppsala: Universitetstryckeriet, 2002. 11-30.

Davies, Mark. “A corpus-based study of lexical developments in Early and Late Modern English.” In Handbook of English Historical Linguistics, edited by Merja Kytö and Päivi Pahta. Forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

—. “Expanding Horizons in Historical Linguistics with the 400 million word Corpus of Historical American English.” (PDF) Corpora 7, no. 2 (2012): 121–57. Accessed July 10, 2013.

Duhaime, Douglas. "Co-citation Networks in the EEBO-TCP Corpus." July 26, 2014.

—. "Identifying Poetry In Unstructured Corpora." May 5, 2014.

—. "NGram Frequencies and 18th Commonplaces." March 13, 2014.

Fish, Stanley. "'What is stylistics and why are they saying such terrible things about it?" In The Stylistics Reader. Ed. J. J. Weber. London: Arnold, 1996. 94-116. [Originally published 1973]

Froehlich, Heather. "An introductory bibliography to corpus linguistics". Web. 11 May 2014.

Graham, Shawn, Ian Milligan and Scott Weingart. The Historian's Macroscope

Hori, M. Investigating Dickens' Style. A collocational Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Jockers, Matthew. Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2013

Meeks, Elijah and Scott Weingart. "The Digital Humanities Contribution to To Topic Modeling." Journal of Digital Humanities 2, no. 1 (Winter 2012).

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