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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Linguistic Features as Evidence for Historical Context Interpretation

Authors : Jyi-Shane Liu, Ching-Ying Lee, Hua-Yuan Hsueh

Published in: Text, Speech, and Dialogue

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Inspired by the great potential of linguistic features in preserving and revealing writers’ state of mind and conception in certain space and time, we use linguistic features as a vehicle to extract pieces of significant information from a large set of text of known origin so as to construct a context for personal inspection on the writer(s). In this research, we choose a set of linguistic features, each of a grammatical function or a grammatical association pattern, and each represents a different perspective of contextual annotation. In particular, the selected grammatical items include personal pronoun, negation, noun chunk, and are used as text slicing tubes for extracting a certain aspect of information. The initial results show that some selected grammatical constructions are effective in extracting descriptive evidence for construing historical context. Our study has contributed to exploring an effective avenue for innovative history studies by means of examining linguistic evidence.

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Metadata
Title
Linguistic Features as Evidence for Historical Context Interpretation
Authors
Jyi-Shane Liu
Ching-Ying Lee
Hua-Yuan Hsueh
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Text, Speech, and Dialogue

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-64205-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-64206-2

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64206-2_34

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