Abstract / Description of output
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 (dendograms). 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.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities |
| Volume | Special issue Visualization in Historical Linguistics |
| Publication status | Published - 22 Dec 2020 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- historical corpora
- text analysis
- stylistics
- correspondence analysis
- stylometry
- n-grams
- visualization techniques