Säily , T , Mäkelä , E & Hämäläinen , M 2018 , ' Explorations into the social contexts of neologism use in early English correspondence ' , Pragmatics & Cognition , vol. 25 , no. 1 , pp. 30-49 . https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.18001.sai
Title: | Explorations into the social contexts of neologism use in early English correspondence |
Author: | Säily, Tanja; Mäkelä, Eetu; Hämäläinen, Mika |
Contributor organization: | English Philology Department of Digital Humanities Digital Humanities Department of Languages Language Technology Human Sciences – Computing Interaction |
Date: | 2018 |
Language: | eng |
Number of pages: | 20 |
Belongs to series: | Pragmatics & Cognition |
ISSN: | 0929-0907 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.18001.sai |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/304042 |
Abstract: | This paper describes ongoing work towards a rich analysis of the social contexts of neologism use in historical corpora, in particular the Corpora of Early English Correspondence, with research questions concerning the innovators, meanings and diffusion of neologisms. To enable this kind of study, we are developing new processes, tools and ways of combining data from different sources, including the Oxford English Dictionary, the Historical Thesaurus, and contemporary published texts. Comparing neologism candidates across these sources is complicated by the large amount of spelling variation. To make the issues tractable, we start from case studies of individual suffixes (-ity, -er) and people (Thomas Twining). By developing tools aiding these studies, we build toward more general analyses. Our aim is to develop an open-source environment where information on neologism candidates is gathered from a variety of algorithms and sources, pooled, and presented to a human evaluator for verification and exploration. |
Description: | The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, methods, models. Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:1 (2018). Edited by Daphné Kerremans, Jelena Prokić, Quirin Würschinger and Hans-Jörg Schmid |
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neologisms historical sociolinguistics corpus linguistics methods open source English language correspondence spelling variation normalization tools |
Peer reviewed: | Yes |
Usage restriction: | openAccess |
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Grant number: | 293009 |
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