What is it about?
Corpus Linguistics is undeniably part of the digital humanities. However, it rarely figures prominently in discussions of the digital humanities. This paper provides an overview of the principles of corpus linguistics and discusses how it fits into the digital humanities. It also offers a critical perspective on the wave metaphor which many contemporary digital humanists apply in conceptualizing the history of the digital humanities.
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Why is it important?
In discussing the relationship between the digital humanities and corpus linguistics, the article may be valuable to researchers in either framework who are interested in the other framework. In criticizing the wave metaphor, the article also offers a critical perspective on the digital humanities from within which might inspire interesting debate.
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I was invited by one of the editors to contribute an article on corpus linguistics to a special issue of the journal on the digital humanities. Originally just an overview of the history of corpus linguistics and how it is positioned in relation to the digital humanities, the article took a more critical turn after I received feedback from the peer reviewers which - although that was not their intention - made me think more critically about the self-perceptions and groupings within the digital humanities.
Kim Ebensgaard Jensen
University of Copenhagen
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This page is a summary of: Linguistics in the digital humanities: (computational) corpus linguistics, MedieKultur Journal of media and communication research, December 2014, Aarhus University Library,
DOI: 10.7146/mediekultur.v30i57.15968.
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