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Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution: Computational Linguistics and History

Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution: Computational Linguistics and History

Hardcover

Series: Corpus and Discourse

General ReferenceLinguistics

ISBN10: 147250609X
ISBN13: 9781472506092
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Dec 1 2016
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material.

This open access book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally. Focussing on the topic of prostitution in 17th-century England, it shows how corpus methods can assist in social research, and can be used to deepen our understanding and comprehension.

McEnery and Baker draw principally on two sources - the newsbook Mercurius Fumigosis and the Early English Books Online Corpus. This scholarship on prostitution and the sex trade offers insight into the social position of women in history.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

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