Describing, transcribing, encoding, and editing modern correspondence material: a textbase approach
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چکیده
sharing the resources collected or cataloged by a documentary editing project can be one of the greatest intellectual challenges a scholar faces. 1 1. Introduction It is almost impossible to list the many reasons why the preservation, editing, and study of correspondence material is of great importance to our culture. Not only do archives, repositories, and collections of manuscripts and letters constitute the backbone of our cultural memory, they also provide the historian, biographer, literary and textual critic – amongst other scholars – with invaluable information concerning the people, topics, events, or works under study. The (socio-)linguist, the language geographer, and the linguist interested in diachronic or synchronic research can generate very rich data sets from well constructed and consistently encoded corpora of transcribed correspondence material. Such corpora can be subject to stylometry and attribution studies, statistical research of all sorts, and lexicology. 2 With respect to scholarly editing, a conscientious analysis of the extant correspondence material between authors and their friends, publishers, illustrators, critics etc. is indispensable for a well-argued reconstruction of the genesis of their works, and can shed new light on questions of authenticity, chronology, and assessment of the sources as well as the history of publication and reception. Letters can contain information about the dating of manuscripts, possible lost sources, and (forced) revisions, and can provide answers to documentary, aesthetic, authorial, sociological, and bibliographic questions. Letters indeed are amongst the most important monuments which the individual can leave behind. 3
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
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دوره 24 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009