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Corpus linguistics and 17th-century prostitution : computational linguistics and history / Anthony McEnery and Helen Baker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McEnery, Tony, 1964- author.
- Series:
- Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse ; 3.
- Research in corpus and discourse ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computational linguistics--History.
- Computational linguistics.
- Corpora (Linguistics)--Data processsing.
- Corpora (Linguistics).
- English language--Social aspects--England--History--17th century.
- English language.
- English language--Spoken English.
- English language--Usage.
- English language--17th century--History.
- Prostitutes in literature.
- Prostitution--England--History--Spoken English.
- Prostitution.
- Prostitution--England--History--Usage.
- Prostitution--England--History--17th century.
- Sociolinguistics--England.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material. This 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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Life as a seventeenth-century prostitute
- Popular attitudes towards prostitutes
- Looking at words
- Strumpets and whores
- Whores, harlots, jilts and prostitutes
- Looking back, looking forwards.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- ISBN:
- 9781474295062
- 1474295061
- 9781472512833
- 1472512839
- 9781472514240
- 1472514246
- OCLC:
- 961456194
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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