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Semantic Change and Collective Knowledge in 18th-Century British Print
John Regan
Hardback. Bloomsbury Academic 2023-08-24.
ISBN 9781350360495
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Publisher description
An in-depth digital investigation of the 18th-century British corpus, this book identifies shared communities of meaning in the printed British 18th century by highlighting and analysing patterns in the distribution of lexis in historical corpora. There are forces of attraction between words: some are more likely to keep company than others, and how words attract and repel one another is worthy of note. Charting these forces, this book presents how distant reading 18th-century corpora can tell us something new, methodologically defensible and, crucially, interesting, about the most common constructions of word meanings and epistemes in the printed British 18th century. Through the case studies in this book, computation brings to light some remarkable facts about collectively-produced forms of meaning, without which the most common meanings of words, and the ways of knowing that they constituted, would remain matters of conjecture rather than evidence. Providing the first investigation of collective meaning and knowledge in the British 18th century, this interdisciplinary study builds on the existing stores of close reading, praxis, and history of ideas, presenting a view constructed at scale, rather than at the level of individual texts
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