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Cultural specificities of online dictionaries for English learners: Evidence from a user survey and a multimodal discourse analysis 英语学习者在线词典的文化特征:来自用户调查和多模态语篇分析的证据

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-11 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqad055

Shuneng Zhong, Xiqin Liu

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VR as a metaleptic possible world of global citizenship embodiment: a cognitive stylistic approach 虚拟现实作为全球公民体现的元感官可能世界:一种认知风格方法

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-04 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqad078

Rania Magdi Fawzy

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Eye Tracking in Linguistics. Salvatore Attardo and Lucy Pickering 语言学中的眼动追踪。塞尔瓦托·阿塔多和露西·皮克林

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqad081

Caterina Cacioli

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Methodological observations concerning word rankings and z-score refinements 关于单词排名和z分数改进的方法学观察

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-03 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqad079

Hartmut Ilsemann

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Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis. Camilla Vásquez 数字语篇分析研究方法。卡米拉Vasquez

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-11-02 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqad082

Hang Yu, Sijia Chang

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The combination of the Song Dynasty patterns and digital technology 宋代图案与数字技术的结合

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-26 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqad077

Jia Hu

{"title":"The combination of the Song Dynasty patterns and digital technology","authors":"Jia Hu","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad077","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad077","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Song-era artifacts carry ideas of naturalness and moderate elegance, preserving and passing them on to future generations. The emerging digital opportunities and initiatives allow us not only to study pattern samples in detail but also to create digital equivalents that are not subject to aging or destruction. This research aims to obtain specific knowledge and situational experience regarding the digitization of Song Dynasty patterns. At the preliminary research stage, the authors performed an online survey on a popular Chinese platform. The survey confirmed the interest of a wide audience in cultural heritage (CH) objects and their preservation. The respondents noted the focus on digital sources of information and considered the documentary video format an optimal educational design. In the first stage, Song patterns were digitally processed using MATLAB version 7.0 and ACDSee. In the subsequent phase, based on the processed patterns, the authors developed an instructional video. In the third stage, the researchers assessed students’ knowledge acquired by watching a video (experimental group) or attending a lecture with a presentation based on raw patterns (control group). The results obtained before and after the intervention showed significant progress in each group. It indicated the effectiveness of the digitized images and this intervention for obtaining new knowledge and raising awareness about the Song Dynasty CH.","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136377294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Victorian anti-vaccination discourse corpus (VicVaDis): construction and exploration 维多利亚时代抗疫苗话语语料库(VicVaDis)的构建与探索

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-26 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqad075

Claire Hardaker, Alice Deignan, Elena Semino, Tara Coltman-Patel, William Dance, Zsófia Demjén, Chris Sanderson, Derek Gatherer

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Machine learning and data analysis for word segmentation of classical Chinese poems: illustrations with Tang and Song examples 中文古诗分词的机器学习与数据分析:唐宋例证

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqad073

Chao-Lin Liu, Wei-Ting Chang, Chang-Ting Chu, Ti-Yong Zheng

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Research on character tone trend clustering of Kunqu Opera based on quantum adaptive genetic algorithm 基于量子自适应遗传算法的昆曲字调趋势聚类研究

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-19 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqad074

Rui Tian, Ruheng Yin, Junrong Ban

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One-third of a century on: the state of the art, pitfalls, and the way ahead relating to digital humanities approaches to translation and interpreting studies 三分之一个世纪过去了:翻译和口译研究中数字人文学科方法的现状、陷阱和未来发展方向

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Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Pub Date : 2023-10-18 DOI: 10.1093/llc/fqad076

Chonglong Gu

{"title":"One-third of a century on: the state of the art, pitfalls, and the way ahead relating to digital humanities approaches to translation and interpreting studies","authors":"Chonglong Gu","doi":"10.1093/llc/fqad076","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad076","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The year 1993 represents a momentous milestone in the not-so-long history of translation and interpreting studies (TIS). The foundational paper published by Mona Baker entitled ‘Corpus linguistics and translation studies: Implications and applications’ in 1993 has signalled a defining moment in the application of digital humanities (DH) approaches in TIS. Since then, corpus-based TIS, as a most visible manifestation of DH in TIS, has come into being and is now gradually entering into maturity. Compared with the previously largely anecdotal, impressionist, and prescriptivist accounts of translation and interpreting, the incorporation of DH tools (e.g. CL) has significantly enriched TIS with new perspectives. This makes it possible for researchers to explore the various aspects of translation and interpreting in a more objective and systematic way, drawing on real-world data. Now one-third of a century has passed since the publication of Baker’s seminal paper, DH-inspired studies of translation and interpreting are in full swing. As we are reaching the 30-year mark of the influential publication, it is important for us to take stock of the previous achievements and look to the future both with pride and a cool head. In this article, we trace the developments of a DH approach to TIS and present the state of the art, before discussing some of the limitations and pitfalls and the road ahead going forward.","PeriodicalId":45315,"journal":{"name":"Digital Scholarship in the Humanities","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135889024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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