[1] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu> (7)
Subject: statistics on the history of book production and
consumption
[2] From: Geoffrey Rockwell <grockwel@mcmaster.ca> (18)
Subject: Text Analysis Papers
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:50:56 +0100
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@english.uga.edu>
Subject: statistics on the history of book production and consumption
>> From: "Prof. Roly Sussex" <sussex@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au>
I am looking for figures on the numbers of titles and copies published
during the first 300-400 years of printing, and estimates of the
effects of printing on literacy. I seem to remember seeing something
of this nature in a recent study of the effects of IT on the printed
book .. can anyone help, please?
Roly Sussex
The University of Queensland
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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 20:14:38 +0100
From: Geoffrey Rockwell <grockwel@mcmaster.ca>
Subject: Text Analysis Papers
Dear Humanists,
I am teaching a course on electronic texts and their study. For this course
I would like my students to read examples of published papers based on
computer-assisted text-analysis. By this I mean papers that are not about
text tools, but about a text or linguistic corpus using computer methods to
gain insight into work. Ideally the papers would have the following
characteristics:
1. Accessible to an undergraduate
2. Insight into a text or corpus that would not be possible through
traditional research methods
3. Uses computer methods available in accessible text-analysis environments
like TACT
4. Describes the computer methods in a way that an undergraduate could
understand and apply to another text
While this may be a tall order, I am sure such papers are out there. Please
send any references that come to mind to me (grockwel@mcmaster.ca) and I
will summarize them for Humanist.
Thanks in advance,
Geoffrey Rockwell
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