Corpus linguistics for history : the methodology of investigating place-name discourses in digitised nineteenth-century newspapers

The increasing availability of historical sources in a digital form has led to calls for new forms of reading in history. This thesis responds to these calls by exploring the potential of approaches from the field of corpus linguistics to be useful to historical research. Specifically, two sets of m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Joulain, Amelia Tahirih
Other Authors: Hardie, Andrew ; Gregory, Ian
Published: Lancaster University 2017
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.727165