Linguistic studies and Digital Humanities: corpus and decorporification

Authors

  • Cláudia Freitas PUC-Rio

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v22i44.33556

Keywords:

digital humanities, post-structuralism, corpus, language instability, computational linguistics

Abstract

Since Saussure, linguistic science relies on the assumption that there is a homogeneous language underlying the variation. This paper seeks to refute this assumption, using as methodology statistical explorations in large corpora. Theories are narratives that try to organize the data at our disposal, and it is therefore reasonable that new data (different both in quantity and quality) produce new narratives. From the perspective presented here, we see language being regular and irregular, without center or periphery. Irregularity is inescapable; language is complicated and simple, simultaneously.

 

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.2017n44a1015

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Author Biography

Cláudia Freitas, PUC-Rio

Possui graduação em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1997), mestrado em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2000) e doutorado em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2007). Professora do Departamento de Letras da PUC-Rio/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Estudos da Linguagem, e colaboradora da Linguateca desde 2007. Tem experiência na área de Lingüística, com ênfase em Lingüística Computacional e com Corpus, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: anotação linguística, léxicos, extração automática de informação a partir de textos, descrição do português e Humanidades Digitais. Tem interesse no uso de tecnologias na educação. Membro da Comissão Especial de Processamento de Linguagem Natural (CE-PLN).

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Published

2017-12-22

How to Cite

Freitas, C. (2017). Linguistic studies and Digital Humanities: corpus and decorporification. Gragoatá, 22(44), 1207-1227. https://doi.org/10.22409/gragoata.v22i44.33556

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 44 (2017): From language to discourse: theoretical paradigms

Section

Language Articles

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