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C03 | The Conceptual History of Comparison

Terms denoting comparison: The semantics of comparing from the sixteenth to the twentieth century

This subproject is exploring the semantics of comparing in Europe since 1500. The inquiry proceeds on three levels: terms denoting practices of comparing, explicit definitions of comparing, and speech acts (sentences) that perform comparisons. The basic hypothesis for the early modern period is that comparisons in the form of analogies were on the decline, whereas progressive comparisons, embedded in perceptions of competition, were on the increase. Finally, since 1800, there has been a growing importance of comparisons that stress equivalence in spite of difference or even complete incomparability.

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Utopian Literature
english
OCR
NLP
USAS
15th century

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Topics

Practices of Cultural Comparison, Practices of Literary Comparison, Practices of Political Comparison

Utopias of the 15th century to present

Chronospatial Comparisons
Explicit Comparisons
Normative Comparisons
Temporal Comparisons

Corpus consisting of English utopias ranging from the 15th century till the present. The corpus consists of input and output files. Input files are the utopias in book form. Output files are the OCR and natural language processing (NLP) results. NLP processes include among others part of speech tagging (POS) and semantic tagging using the UCREL Semantic Analysis System (USAS).

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Publisher
C03 | The Conceptual History of Comparison
Modified
2020-10-27
Release Date
2020-05-28
Author
Michael Götzelmann
Identifier
b6ab1bbc-45fb-43bf-91ea-15ab302d1b65
Language
English
License
Creative Commons CCZero
Public Access Level
Public