Corpus Linguistics and Digital Humanities. Intersecting Paths. A Case Study from Twitter
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Digital Humanities, linguistica dei corpora, American studies, Twitter, WMatrix
Abstract
L’obiettivo di questo saggio è proporre un’analisi critica del ruolo della Linguistica dei Corpora all’interno delle Digital Humanities. Lo studio suggerisce che gli strumenti accessibili e user-friendly della Linguistica dei Corpora possono essere considerati uno strumento ottimale attraverso il quale operare all’interno delle Scienze Umane e avanzare nell’obiettivo delle Digital Humanities di includere varie tecniche di computazione negli studi umanistici. Il saggio presenta un caso studio basato su dati raccolti sul social medium Twitter che rappresenta un esempio in cui i due approcci (Linguistica dei Corpora e Digital Humanities) possono essere utilizzati unitamente all’interno degli American Studies. Nel saggio, gli American Studies sono intesi in senso lato come una disciplina inclusiva di diverse prospettive che si approcciano allo studio del continente americano. In conclusione, l’incontro tra la Linguistica dei Corpora e le Digital Humanities viene definito come una necessità per il futuro delle Digital Humanities stesse.
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Evert, Stefan. 2008. “Corpora and collocations”. In Corpus Linguistics. An International Handbook, edited by Anke Lüdeling and Merja Kytö, 1212-1248. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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Zappavigna, Michele. 2012. Discourse of Twitter and Social Media: How we Use Language to Create Affiliation on the Web. Lon- don, New York: Continuum.
Zappavigna, Michele. 2018. Searchable Talk. Hashtags and Social Media Metadiscourse. London, Oxford, New York, new Delhi, Sidney: Bloomsbury.
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2020-12-29
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Zottola, A. (2020). Corpus Linguistics and Digital Humanities. Intersecting Paths. A Case Study from Twitter. América Crítica, 4(2), 131-141. https://doi.org/10.13125/americacritica/4521
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