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Semantic Change and Collective Knowledge in 18th Century Britain (Hardcover)
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Semantic Change and Collective Knowledge in 18th Century Britain (Hardcover)
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An in-depth digital investigation of several 18th-century British
corpora, this book identifies shared communities of meaning in the
printed British 18th century by highlighting and analysing patterns
in the distribution of lexis. 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 demonstrates 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. In 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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