The Victorian anti-vaccination discourse corpus (VicVaDis): construction and exploration
The Victorian anti-vaccination discourse corpus (VicVaDis): construction and exploration
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维多利亚时代反疫苗语料库(VicVaDis):构建与探索
DOI:
10.1093/llc/fqad075
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
0.8
通讯作者:
Hardaker C
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作者:
Hardaker C
This article introduces and explores the 3.5-million-word Victorian Anti-Vaccination Discourse Corpus (VicVaDis). The corpus is intended to provide a (freely accessible) historical resource for the investigation of the earliest public concerns and arguments against vaccination in England, which revolved around compulsory vaccination against smallpox in the second half of the 19th century. It consists of 133 anti-vaccination pamphlets and publications gathered from 1854 to 1906, a span of 53 years that loosely coincides with the Victorian era (1837–1901). This timeframe was chosen to capture the period between the 1853 Vaccination Act, which made smallpox vaccination for babies compulsory, and the 1907 Act that effectively ended the mandatory nature of vaccination. After an overview of the historical background, this article describes the rationale, design and construction of the corpus, and then demonstrates how it can be exploited to investigate the main arguments against compulsory vaccination by means of widely accessible corpus linguistic tools. Where appropriate, parallels are drawn between Victorian and 21st-century vaccine-hesitant attitudes and arguments. Overall, this article demonstrates the potential of corpus analysis to add to our understanding of historical concerns about vaccination.
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影响因子:
11.8
作者:
T. P. Weber
通讯作者:
T. P. Weber
影响因子:
0.8
作者:
W. Arnold;C. Arnold
通讯作者:
C. Arnold
影响因子:
7.8
作者:
Nuwarda RF;Ramzan I;Weekes L;Kayser V
通讯作者:
Kayser V
DOI:
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发表时间:
2011
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影响因子:
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作者:
Hans;H. D. Smet;J. Tyrkkö
通讯作者:
J. Tyrkkö
影响因子:
168.9
作者:
SWALES, JD
通讯作者:
SWALES, JD