Jack London's racial lives [[electronic resource] ] : a critical biography / / Jeanne Campbell Reesman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910456768903321
• Autore: Reesman Jeanne Campbell
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens [Ga.], : University of Georgia Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-283-11038-5; 9786613110381; 0-8203-3970-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (448 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.52
• Soggetti: Authors, American - 20th century; Race in literature; Racism in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-371) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Jack London and race -- True north or white silence? Slave vs. "zone-conqueror" in the Klondike -- Marching with the censor: Jack London, author! And the Japanese army -- London and the postcolonial South Pacific -- Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the "great white hope" -- A "'Good Indian'"? Race as class in Martin Eden -- "Make westing" for the Sonoma dream -- "Mongrels" to "young wise ones": on the Mexican Revolution and On the Makaloa mat.

From data to evidence in English language research / / edited by Carla Suhr, Terttu Nevalainen, Irma Taavitsainen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795133803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , [2019]
• ISBN: 90-04-39065-0; 90-04-39064-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 pages)
• Collana: Language and computers ; ; Volume 83
• Disciplina: 420.188
• Soggetti: English language - Research - Data processing; English language - History - Data processing; Corpora (Linguistics); Historical linguistics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- Corpus Linguistics as Digital Scholarship: Big Data, Rich Data and Uncharted Data / Terttu Nevalainen , Carla Suhr and and Irma Taavitsainen -- Evidence from “Big Data” -- Big Data: Opportunities and Challenges for English Corpus Linguistics / Antoinette Renouf -- Corpus-based Studies of Lexical and Semantic Variation: The Importance of Both Corpus Size and Corpus Design / Mark Davies -- Empirically Charting the Success of Prescriptivism: Some Case Studies of Nineteenth-century English / Lieselotte Anderwald -- Warn Against -ing: Exceptions to Bach’s Generalization in Four Varieties of English / Mark Kaunisto and Juhani Rudanko -- Evidence from “Rich Data”? -- Commonplace Books: Charting and Enriching Complex Data / Thomas Kohnen -- Mining Big Data: A Philologist’s Perspective / Tanja Rütten -- Function-to-form Mapping in Corpora: Historical Corpus Pragmatics and the Study of Stance Expressions / Daniela Landert -- Scholastic Argumentation in Early English Medical Writing and Its Afterlife: New Corpus Evidence / Irma Taavitsainen and Gerold Schneider -- Evidence from Uncharted Data and Rethinking Old Data? -- Language Surrounding Poverty in Early ; Modern England: A Corpus-based Investigation of How People Living in the Seventeenth Century Perceived the Criminalised Poor / Tony McEnery and Helen Baker -- An Information-Theoretic Approach to Modeling Diachronic Change in Scientific English / Stefania Degaetano-Ortlieb , Hannah Kermes , Ashraf Khamis and Elke Teich -- Academic Vocabulary in Wikipedia Articles: Frequency and Dispersion in Uneven Datasets / Turo Hiltunen and Jukka Tyrkkö -- Words (don’t come easy): The Automatic Retrieval and Analysis of Popular Song Lyrics / David Brett and Antonio Pinna -- Charting New Sources of elf Data: A Multi-Genre Corpus Approach / Mikko Laitinen , Magnus Levin and Alexander Lakaw -- Back Matter -- Index.