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TY - JOUR
T1 - Child welfare in Victorian newspapers
T2 - corpus-based discourse analysis
AU - Atkinson, Paul
AU - Gregory, Ian Norman
N1 - This is a manuscript version of an article that has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History © 2017 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
PY - 2017/9/1
Y1 - 2017/9/1
N2 - Corpus linguistics enables the analysis of patterns in large bodies of written material. The use of this approach to trace discourses about infant mortality in all of the text published by four newspapers in England and Wales between 1870 and 1900 detects systematic variations in views about infant welfare by locality. It also reveals some of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in interrogating digitized text with linguistic tools in historical research.
AB - Corpus linguistics enables the analysis of patterns in large bodies of written material. The use of this approach to trace discourses about infant mortality in all of the text published by four newspapers in England and Wales between 1870 and 1900 detects systematic variations in views about infant welfare by locality. It also reveals some of the strengths and weaknesses inherent in interrogating digitized text with linguistic tools in historical research.
UR - http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/jinh
U2 - 10.1162/JINH_a_01124
DO - 10.1162/JINH_a_01124
M3 - Journal article
VL - 48
SP - 159
EP - 186
JO - Journal of Interdisciplinary History
JF - Journal of Interdisciplinary History
SN - 0022-1953
IS - 2
ER -