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Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Standards, Systems, Scholarship
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SYSNO ASEP 0517953 Document Type M - Monograph Chapter R&D Document Type Monograph Chapter Title Natural Language Processing: Shifting Rhetorical Strategies in Comenius’s Correspondence with Three Separate Communitites Author(s) Urbánek, Vladimír (FLU-F) SAI, RID, ORCID
Storchová, Lucie (FLU-F) RID, ORCID, SAI
Trausan-Matu, S. (RO)
Dascalu, M. (RO)Source Title Reassembling the Republic of Letters in the Digital Age: Standards, Systems, Scholarship. - Göttingen : Göttingen University Press, 2019 / Hotson H. ; Wallnig T. - ISBN 978-3-86395-403-1 Pages s. 428-432 Number of pages 5 s. Number of pages 470 Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country DE - Germany Keywords J. A. Comenius ; correspondence ; rhetorical analysis ; Natural language processing ; qualitative analysis ; quantitative analysis Subject RIV AB - History OECD category History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings) Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 Annotation The study focuses on analysis of Comenius’s letters sent between 1630 and 1642. A total corpus was chosen consisting of thirty-three letters addressed to three distinct communities. The expansion and diversification of his correspondence in this period posed a rhetorical challenge. As Comenius developed very different relationships with several distinct scholarly communities, he needed to diversify his epistolary styles and to develop rhetorical strategies appropriate to each. This posed the key research questions. Did Comenius employ different rhetorical and stylistic strategies and discuss different major topics with each of these communities? Can Natural language processing (NLP) techniques provide a quantitative foundation for a qualitative scholarly answer to the first question? In the first step the analysis showed that Comenius used very specific styles to address three groups of his correspondence partners: German educational reformers, the Danzig circle and the Hartlib circle. After undertaking the historical, and rhetorical analysis, the same texts were analysed using the NLP framework ReaderBench. Statistical analyses focused on lexical and semantic features were performed to investigate the differences in the writing style of letters addressed to the three communities. These methods revealed significant differences between the three groups. The results are richly documented by figures. The affirmative answers to both of research questions open up a broad field for further experimentation. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2020
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