ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of English Language and Digital Humanities serves as a reference point for key developments related to the ways in which the digital turn has shaped the study of the English language and of how the resulting methodological approaches have permeated other disciplines. It draws on modern linguistics and discourse analysis for its analytical methods and applies these approaches to the exploration and theorisation of issues within the humanities.

Divided into three sections, this handbook covers:

  • sources and corpora;
  • analytical approaches;
  • English language at the interface with other areas of research in the digital humanities.

In covering these areas, more traditional approaches and methodologies in the humanities are recast and research challenges are re-framed through the lens of the digital. The essays in this volume highlight the opportunities for new questions to be asked and long-standing questions to be reconsidered when drawing on the digital in humanities research.

This is a ground-breaking collection of essays offering incisive and essential reading for anyone with an interest in the English language and digital humanities.

 

chapter 2|21 pages

Spoken corpora

chapter 3|23 pages

Written corpora

chapter 4|17 pages

Digital interaction

chapter 5|19 pages

Multimodality I

Speech, prosody and gestures

chapter 6|22 pages

Multimodality II

Text and image

chapter 8|18 pages

Metaphor

chapter 9|21 pages

Grammar

chapter 10|21 pages

Lexis

chapter 11|17 pages

Ethnography

chapter 12|18 pages

Mediated discourse analysis

chapter 13|22 pages

Critical discourse analysis

chapter 14|21 pages

Conversation analysis

chapter 16|23 pages

Sociolinguistics

chapter 17|22 pages

Literary stylistics

chapter 18|32 pages

Historical linguistics

chapter 19|18 pages

Forensic linguistics

chapter 20|27 pages

Corpus linguistics

chapter 21|13 pages

English language and classics

chapter 22|22 pages

English language and history

Geographical representations of poverty in historical newspapers

chapter 26|17 pages

English language and English literature

New ways of understanding literary language using psycholinguistics

chapter 28|25 pages

English language and public humanities

‘An army of willing volunteers’: analysing the language of online citizen engagement in the humanities

chapter 30|19 pages

English language and social media