English and empire : literary history, dialect, and the digital archive

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of Figures = ix
• List of Tables = xv
• Acknowledgments = xvii
• 1 Introduction = 1
• A Note about Terminology and a Word of Caution = 12
• 2 Literary Dialect, Race, and Empire = 15
• The Distant Reading of Structure = 18
• The Close Reading of the "Imperial Archive" = 21
• A Few Comments about the Statistical Analysis = 28
• Patterns, Their Propagation, and Their Meaning = 29
• 3 Corpus Design = 31
• Data Collection = 33
• Data Preparation = 36
• The Voicing Imperial Subjects in British Literature (VISiBL) Corpus = 40
• Data Coding = 42
• Conclusion = 51
• 4 An Overview of the Data and the Digital Toolkit = 53
• Feature Variation = 54
• Speaker Variation = 72
• Conclusion = 103
• 5 Case #1 : African Diasporic Dialogue = 106
• Constituents of African Diasporic Dialogue = 108
• Diachronic Trends in African Diasporic Dialogue = 121
• Resemblances in African Diasporic Dialogue = 132
• Conclusion = 142
• 6 Case #2 : Indian Dialogue = 146
• Constituents of Indian Dialogue = 149
• Diachronic Trends in Indian Dialogue = 157
• Resemblances in Indian Dialogue = 161
• Conclusion = 187
• 7 Case #3 : Chinese Dialogue = 189
• Constituents of Chinese Dialogue = 191
• Diachronic Trends in Chinese Dialogue = 201
• Resemblances in Chinese Dialogue = 208
• Conclusion = 223
• 8 The Enduring Power of Mimicry and the Politics of Measurement = 226
• Annotated Glossary = 237
• Appendix A. Corpus Composition = 262
• Appendix B. Coding Taxonomy = 268
• Appendix C. Coding Category Descriptions = 275
• Appendix D. Feature Tables : All Dialogue = 288
• Appendix E. Feature Tables : African Diasporic Dialogue = 296
• Appendix F. Feature Tables : Indian Dialogue = 304
• Appendix G. Feature Tables : Chinese Dialogue = 312
• References = 320
• Index = 343