[Corpora-List] Is corpora of texts an object?

[Trevor Jenkins]

[Oh I hate the list is not set as Reply-To: Argh!]

On 8 Oct 2012, at 13:18, "Yuri Tambovtsev" <yutamb at mail.ru> wrote:

> Can can we measure that Dickens corpora is more homogeneous or less homogeneous than Hemingway corpora by some cognitive feature?

At the moment we can't even measure the completeness of corpora for Dickens and Hemingway. This past year has been the 200th anniversary of his birth and it is only now that much of his ephemera has become available through the Dickens Journals Online project http://www.djo.org.uk/ (to which I have no real connection other than being one of the team of volunteer proof-readers/copy-editors that worked on correcting the OCR errors in the online texts). Until that project we pretty much had only his fiction to analyse now we have his social observations too.

Do we have a *complete* corpus for Hemingway?

> For instance the use of colour terms? Can we call it a cognitive feature?

Interesting issue. How would you deal with that? What about the French impressionist painter Claude Monet and his deteriorating eyesight that caused him to see colours differently. When he had his cataracts operating upon he noticed how what he saw changed. Or the English composer Sir Arthur Bliss who as a synasthete saw colours for particular notes and cadences. He was astounded when his Colour Symphony was performed that few other people saw the same colours as he; indeed that most people didn't see colours from music at all.

Regards, Trevor.

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