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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148746703321

Autore

McEnery Tony <1964->

Titolo

Corpus linguistics and 17th-century prostitution : computational linguistics and history / / Anthony McEnery and Helen Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017

ISBN

9781474295062

1474295061

9781472512833

1472512839

9781472514240

1472514246

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 pages)

Collana

Research in corpus and discourse ; ; 3

Disciplina

420.1/88

Soggetti

English language - Social aspects - England - History - 17th century

English language - 17th century - History

English language - Spoken English

English language - Usage

Prostitution - England - History - 17th century

Prostitution - England - History - Spoken English

Prostitution - England - History - Usage

Prostitutes in literature

Corpora (Linguistics) - Data processsing

Computational linguistics - History

Sociolinguistics - England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Life as a seventeenth-century prostitute -- Popular attitudes towards prostitutes -- Looking at words -- Strumpets and whores -- Whores, harlots, jilts and prostitutes -- Looking back, looking forwards.

Sommario/riassunto

"Corpus linguistics has much to offer history, being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material. This



book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally. Focussing on the topic of prostitution in 17th-century England, it shows how corpus methods can assist in social research, and can be used to deepen our understanding and comprehension. McEnery and Baker draw principally on two sources - the newsbook Mercurius Fumigosis and the Early English Books Online Corpus. This scholarship on prostitution and the sex trade offers insight into the social position of women in history."--Bloomsbury Publishing.