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A Commissioner’s Day: Quantitative approaches to the study of evidence in royal commissions of inquiry
Parkinson, N; Doherty, S; Ford, L. - : Oxford University Press, 2021
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Inquiring into the corpus of empire
Abstract: This article tests the value of corpus linguistics in analysing nineteenth-century commissions of inquiry into British colonies. It examines and improves the capacity of a computerised text analysis tool called the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count to identify word meaning, sentiment and psycholinguistic constructs in nineteenth-century sources. By augmenting its dictionary with nineteenth-century language and cross-checking meaning, we show that the software can code with 97% accuracy. We then demonstrate the tool’s potential to explore genres of colonial writing, and to locate emotive language and language relating to power differentials in commission reports, a function we argue may provide a ‘way in’ to assessing how commissioners treated different kinds of British subjects and their testimony in the reports.
Keyword: 1901 Art Theory and Criticism; 2003 Language Studies; 2103 Historical Studies
URL: http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/unsworks_64594
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