Network Text Analysis (NTA) involves the creation of networks of words and/or concepts from linguistic data. Its key insight is that the position of words and concepts in a text network provides vital clues to the central and underlying themes of the text as a whole. Recent research has relied on inductive approaches to identify these themes. In this study we demonstrate a deductive approach th...

This article explores the idea of what may be called Public Demography, wherein the practitioners and interpreters of the discipline of population studies inform (and sometimes inflame) the popular discourse on populationrelated matters. It looks at the representation of demographic research and policies in one form of public engagement, namely fiction — literature being an important way of tra...

Argumentative texts have been thoroughly analyzed for their argumentative structure, and recent efforts aim at their automatic classification. This work investigates linguistic properties of argumentative texts and text passages in terms of their semantic clause types. We annotate argumentative texts with Situation Entity (SE) classes, which combine notions from lexical aspect (states, events) ...

In this paper, we propose a POS tagging method using more than 60 thousand entries of Taiwanese-Mandarin translation dictionary and 10 million words of Mandarin training data to tag Taiwanese. The literary written Taiwanese corpora have both Romanization script and Han-Romanization mixed script, the genre includes prose, fiction and drama. We follow tagset drawn up by CKIP. We develop word alig...

Despite the extensive literature on the problem of story understanding, there has been little focus on formally representing some forms of knowledge that are specific to stories, such as how the reader expects information to be presented over the course of reading. To illustrate, the reader of a mystery story may expect to eventually find out who is guilty, and also that the author may first tr...

The Corpus of Contemporary American English is the first large, genre-balanced corpus of any language, which has been designed and constructed from the ground up as a ‘monitor corpus’, and which can be used to accurately track and study recent changes in the language. The 400 million words corpus is evenly divided between spoken, fiction, popular magazines, newspapers, and academic journals. Mo...

The article argues that one crucial factor in the success of the Swedish vampire film Låt den rätte komma in/Let the Right One In (Alfredson, 2008) is that it seamlessly merges several apparently disparate genres to create a hybrid form that appeals to widely divergent audiences. A detailed analysis of the film demonstrates how it simultaneously draws on and departs from common themes and motif...

1. Yaoi is a genre of storytelling featuring male-male eroticism and romance whose primary audience is girls and women. The genre began in amateur manga (comics), or dōjinshi, culture in 1970s Japan. Today, yaoi has grown into a global phenomenon that is particularly popular in East Asia where, since the late 1990s, it has garnered millions of fans. In Sinophone contexts, yaoi is called danmei ...

l’influence déterminante de walter scott au moment où toute une génération écrit des romans historiques apparaît surtout dans l’hommage que lui rendent des figures comme balzac ou hugo au xixe siècle. cette influence qu’affirment et saluent également les histoires littéraires, est due essentiellement au renouveau de la conception romanesque du roman historique, genre ancien, mariant fiction et ...

From the beginnings of radio drama to digital podcasting, horror has been a significant genre. Radio located an immediate and effective affinity with horror, exploiting form’s qualities invisibility, immersivity suggestion in realizing genre on-air performance. As part this, adaptation – from Gothic classics populist fiction central. One conspicuous absence early is H. P. Lovecraft only one not...