Natural Language Processing: Shifting Rhetorical Strategies in Comenius’s Correspondence with Three Separate Communitites

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Natural Language Processing: Shifting Rhetorical Strategies in Comenius’s Correspondence with Three Separate Communitites

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The study focuses on analysis of Comenius’s letters sent between 1630 and 1642. A total corpus was chosen consisting of thirty-three letters addressed to three distinct communities. The expansion and diversification of his correspondence in this period posed a rhetorical challenge. As Comenius developed very different relationships with several distinct scholarly communities, he needed to diversify his epistolary styles and to develop rhetorical strategies appropriate to each. This posed the key research questions. Did Comenius employ different rhetorical and stylistic strategies and discuss different major topics with each of these communities? Can Natural language processing (NLP) techniques provide a quantitative foundation for a qualitative scholarly answer to the first question? In the first step the analysis showed that Comenius used very specific styles to address three groups of his correspondence partners: German educational reformers, the Danzig circle and the Hartlib circle. After undertaking the historical, and rhetorical analysis, the same texts were analysed using the NLP framework ReaderBench. Statistical analyses focused on lexical and semantic features were performed to investigate the differences in the writing style of letters addressed to the three communities. These methods revealed significant differences between the three groups. The results are richly documented by figures. The affirmative answers to both of research questions open up a broad field for further experimentation.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Natural Language Processing: Shifting Rhetorical Strategies in Comenius’s Correspondence with Three Separate Communitites

Popis výsledku anglicky

The study focuses on analysis of Comenius’s letters sent between 1630 and 1642. A total corpus was chosen consisting of thirty-three letters addressed to three distinct communities. The expansion and diversification of his correspondence in this period posed a rhetorical challenge. As Comenius developed very different relationships with several distinct scholarly communities, he needed to diversify his epistolary styles and to develop rhetorical strategies appropriate to each. This posed the key research questions. Did Comenius employ different rhetorical and stylistic strategies and discuss different major topics with each of these communities? Can Natural language processing (NLP) techniques provide a quantitative foundation for a qualitative scholarly answer to the first question? In the first step the analysis showed that Comenius used very specific styles to address three groups of his correspondence partners: German educational reformers, the Danzig circle and the Hartlib circle. After undertaking the historical, and rhetorical analysis, the same texts were analysed using the NLP framework ReaderBench. Statistical analyses focused on lexical and semantic features were performed to investigate the differences in the writing style of letters addressed to the three communities. These methods revealed significant differences between the three groups. The results are richly documented by figures. The affirmative answers to both of research questions open up a broad field for further experimentation.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Standards, Systems, Scholarship

ISBN

978-3-86395-403-1

Počet stran výsledku

5

Strana od-do

428-432

Počet stran knihy

470

Název nakladatele

Göttingen University Press

Místo vydání

Göttingen

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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