Week 1 (18.2.)

Introduction to stylistics & corpus stylistics

Reading:

Mahlberg, M. (2015). Literary Style and Literary Texts. In D. Biber & R. Reppen (Eds), The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics, 346-361.

Biber, D. (2011). Corpus linguistics and the study of literature: Back to the future? Scientific Study of Literature 1, 15–23.

Week 2 (26.2.)

Analysing big data literary texts: a wider context

Introduction to the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg and Voyant

Reading:

Underwood, T., Bamman, D. & Lee, S. (2018). The Transformation of Gender in English Language Fiction. Cultural Analytics Feb. 13, 2018. DOI:10.22148/16.019.

Mandell, L. (2019). Gender and Cultural Analytics: Finding or Making Stereotypes? In M. K. Gold & L. F. Klein (Eds), Debates in the Digital Humanities, 3-26.

Week 3 (5.3.)

Literary corpus

Working with CLiC

Reading: Mahlberg, M. (2007). Clusters, key clusters, and local textual functions in Dickens. Corpora 2 (1), 1-31.

Week 4 (12.3.)

Working with CLiC

Reading: Ruano, P. (2018). An analysis of Charles Dickens’s gender-based use of speech verbs. Gender and Language, 12(2), 192–217. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.31137

Week 5 (19.3.)

Keywords

Reading: Culpeper, J. (2009). Keyness: words, parts-of-speech and semantic categories in the character talk of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14(1), 29-59.

Week 6 (26.3.)

Introduction to AntConc

Reading: O’Halloran, K. (2007). Corpus-assisted literary evaluation. Corpora, 2(1) pp. 33–63.

Week 7 (2.4.)

Easter Break

Week 8 (9.4.)

Reading Week

Week 9 (16.4.)

Introduction to LancsBox and Kontext

Week 10 (23.4.)

Data visualisations

Gephi

Week 11 (30.4.)

Problem solving

Week 12 (7.5.) & Week 13 (14.5.)

Presentations