Between Law and Literature: The Criminal Case Study Collection 'Neuer Pitaval' in Literary Corpus Analysis

我们现在的科学学科文化体系出现的19世纪，是一个收集和组织知识体系的时代，这些知识往往位于这些学科之间。刑事案件被法律用来学习刑事诉讼证据的个人陈述，被文学用来学习面向现代大众受众的现实主义叙事艺术。《新皮塔瓦尔》（1842-1890）是第一本全球比较的，也是德语世界最全面的刑事案件汇编，在普遍法律意识的形成中发挥了决定性作用。为了重建这部文集的开篇话语，它必须作为540个案例研究的语料库来分析其多样性。我们的项目遵循一种基于历史研究问题的方法，它使不同的数字语料库分析方法适应各自的认识目标。语义进展分析检查了哪些主题是流行的，什么时候流行的，以及在不断变化的环境下，这些故事是如何从法律政策的角度来看待的。叙事学分析深入探究了在这一过程中形成的叙事模式。为了区分法律和文学表现模式，数字方法与不同程度的上下文敏感性相结合。在文体分析中，它在句子和单词的层次上操作，不同层次的抽象可以用算法来分析。另一方面，叙事分析需要对更大的文本段落进行协作注释，使自动化问题本身成为解释学问题，这反过来又使人们对研究对象有了深入的了解。在法律与文学之间，法律案例研究是19世纪一种流行的知识媒介，从中可以看到资产阶级社会的规范取向和对法律的理解。因此，这种文本类型的体裁诗学就显得尤为重要。因此，我们将采用比较分析来将Pitaval与其他当代语料库进行对比，这些语料库可以被描述为其在媒体系统中的直接竞争对手：家庭杂志Die Gartenlaube中的犯罪故事和Deutscher Novellenschatz的犯罪中篇小说可能会娱乐相同的观众。关注与分类中确定的信号强度分类相关的全球和地方主题连接，我们还将能够通过分析文本的影响强度来检查审美反应的各个方面。

The 19th century, in which our current system of scientific disciplinary cultures emerged, was an epoch of collecting and organizing bodies of knowledge, which often lay between these disciplines. Criminal cases were used by law to learn the individual presentation of proofs for criminal proceedings, and by literature to learn the realistic art of narration for a modern mass audience. As the first globally comparative and also most comprehensive collection of criminal cases in the German-speaking world, the Neue Pitaval (1842-1890) played a decisive role in the emergence of a general legal consciousness. In order to reconstruct the inaugural discourse of this collection, it has to be analyzed in all its diversity as a corpus of 540 case studies.Our project follows an approach based on historical research questions, which adapts the different methods of digital corpus analysis to the respective epistemic goal. Semantic progress analyses examine which topics were in vogue and when, and how the stories were put into perspective in terms of legal policy under changing circumstances. Narratological analyses get to the bottom of the narrative patterns that are developed in this process. To distinguish between legal and literary modes of representation, digital methods are combined with varying degrees of context sensitivity. In stylometric analyses, which operate at the level of sentences and words, different levels of abstraction can be analyzed algorithmically. Narrative analyses, on the other hand, require collaborative annotations of larger sections of text, making questions of automatability themselves appear as hermeneutic problems, which in turn give insight into the research object. Between law and literature, the legal case study is a popular medium of knowledge in the 19th century, in which the normative orientations and the understanding of law of bourgeois society become observable. The genre poetics of this text type is therefore of particular importance. Thus, we will be employing comparative analyses to contrast the Pitaval with other contemporary corpora that can be described as its direct competitors in the media system: The crime stories in the family journal Die Gartenlaube and the crime novellas of the Deutscher Novellenschatz potentially entertained the same audience. Focusing on global and local thematic conjunctures in relation to the categorization of determined signal strengths in the classification, we will also be able to examine aspects of aesthetic response by including the analysis of affect strengths of the texts in our analyses.