The Evolution of Complex Text Patterns:Development and Application of a corpus-linguistic Approach for Analysis of Diachronic Change of Text Patterns in its Multidimensionality

复杂文本模式的演变：多维文本模式历时变化分析的语料库语言方法的开发和应用

• 批准号: 417702242
• 负责人: Privatdozent Dr. Alexander Geyken
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Germanistik und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/417702242?language=en
• 关键词: Evolution; Complex; Text; Patterns; Development

The project proposed here targets the identification of suitable indicators for diachronic change of text patterns based on two highly relevant genres in recent language history (newspapers and devotional literature). Despite its considerable importance for the history of language, diachronic change of text patterns has thus far only been examined with respect to very small text samples, particularly for the text types under consideration here. Therefore, in the course of preliminary work we developed a model for the description of diachronic change of text patterns, which we now propose to systematically test, adapt, and further develop in a corpus-based approach.This underlying multi-dimensional model draws on existing research results regarding linguistic indicators (prefered grammatical structures etc.) for the characterisation of text types. These specific indicators are to be verified with respect to a large text basis in the course of the proposed project. In doing so, the proposed model will be operationalised in such a way that automatic and manual text analysis as well as quantitative and qualitative examination intertwine and mutually inform one another.Concretely, we propose here to systematically investigate patterns of the structural, functional, social, and stylistic dimensions of texts. Since patterns associated with these dimensions can partly be acquired from the textual surface, we can draw on the results of conventional computational linguistic analysis tools. In addition, we plan to apply manual annotation wherever features cannot yet be reliably extracted with automatic methods (especially for historical texts). The extracted features will undergo statistical analysis and the results of this quantitative method will then be verified and interpreted in a qualitative approach based on the actual text sources. Conversely, the manual annotations being results of qualitative analyses will be exploited with quantitative methods.The work will be based on newspapers on the one hand, and devotional literature on the other hand, thus including two genres which had a firmly established place in everyday life for a wide range of recipients in their time. The variety of the corpora under consideration is expected to lead to far-reaching results regarding the manifestations of diachronic change of text patterns in general, thus ensuring the applicability of the techniques developed in the course of the project to the analysis of further text types.

此处提出的项目针对的是基于最近语言历史上两种高度相关类型的文本模式的惯例变化的适当指标（报纸和奉献文献）。尽管对语言的历史具有很大的重要性，但迄今为止，文本模式的历时性变化仅在很小的文本样本方面进行了研究，尤其是对于此处考虑的文本类型。因此，在初步工作的过程中，我们开发了一个模型，用于描述文本模式的历时变化，现在我们建议以基于语料库的方法进行系统地测试，适应和进一步发展，该基本的多维模型吸引了有关语言指标（首选语法结构等）的现有研究结果，以表征文本类型。在拟议项目的过程中，将对这些具体指标进行有关大文本基础的验证。在此过程中，提出的模型将以一种方式进行操作，即自动和手动文本分析以及定量和定性检查相互交织，并相互互相告知。我们在这里建议在这里系统地研究文本的结构，功能，社会和样式维度的模式。由于与这些维度相关的模式可以部分从文本表面获取，因此我们可以利用常规计算语言分析工具的结果。此外，我们计划在无法使用自动方法（尤其是历史文本）可靠提取功能的地方应用手动注释。提取的特征将进行统计分析，然后将根据实际文本源以定性方法对此定量方法的结果进行验证和解释。相反，手动注释作为定性分析的结果将通过定量方法来利用。一方面，这项工作将基于报纸，另一方面是奉献文献，因此包括两种类型，这些流派在日常生活中稳固地确立了众多收件人的日常生活。预计所考虑的语料库的多样性将导致有关文本模式的历时变化表现的深远结果，从而确保项目在项目过程中开发的技术的适用性，以分析进一步的文本类型。