Lexicometry is the quantitative study of the lexicon, using statistical methods, studying a corpus of texts, based mainly on the frequency of use of the words that are part of it.
History Lexicometrics arose from the interest of linguists and historians in the emerging computer sciences in the 1950s and 1960s and, from a theoretical point of view, reflects a focus on quantitative approaches in the humanities (in particular, quantitative history ) and research. for collective structures in language, under the influence of structuralism. It developed in the history of France in the 1970s and 1980s, and took its place in the linguistic turn of the human sciences, in particular with the work of Régine Robin and the work of historians such as Antoine Prost, who worked on the vocabulary of electoral proclamations, or medievalists such as Jean-Philippe Genet or Alain Guerreau. It inherits the work of linguists such as Charles Muller and Étienne Brunet, and is not to faraway to the French school of data analysis and the tools developed in particular by Jean-Paul Benzécri (such as factor analysis ). After a general period of decline of quantitative methods in the human sciences in the 1980s and 1990s, lexicometrics is making a comeback in the 21st century, as part of the development of digital humanities, among other methods of textual data analysis.
Related Sciences Textual data analysis Digital Humanities Lexicography Computational linguistics Logometry Statistics Stylometry Textometry
See also Centre d'Estudis Colombins
References
Further reading Atkins, B.T.S. & Rundell, Michael (2008) The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography, Oxford U.P. ISBN 978-0-19-927771-1 Béjoint, Henri (2000) Modern Lexicography: An Introduction, Oxford U.P. ISBN 978-0-19-829951-6 Considine, John, ed. (2019) The Cambridge World History of Lexicography. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107178861 Bergenholtz, H., Nielsen, S., Tarp, S. (eds.): Lexicography at a Crossroads: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Today, Lexicographical Tools Tomorrow. Peter Lang 2009. ISBN 978-3-03911-799-4 Bergenholtz, Henning & Tarp, Sven (eds.) (1995) Manual of Specialised Lexicography: The Preparation of Specialised Dictionaries, J. Benjamins. ISBN 978-90-272-1612-0 Green, Jonathon (1996) Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, J. Cape. ISBN 0-7126-6216-2 Hartmann, R.R.K. (2001) Teaching and Researching Lexicography, Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-582-36977-1 Hartmann, R.R.K. (ed.) (2003) Lexicography: Critical Concepts, Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 3 volumes. ISBN 978-0-415-25365-9 Hartmann, R.R.K. & James, Gregory (comps.) (1998/2001) Dictionary of Lexicography, Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-14144-4 Inglis, Douglas (2004) Cognitive Grammar and lexicography. Payap University Graduate School Linguistics Department. Kirkness, Alan (2004) "Lexicography", in The Handbook of Applied Linguistics ed. by A. Davies & C. Elder, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 54–81. ISBN 978-1-4051-3809-3 Landau, Sidney (2001) Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge U.P. 2nd ed. ISBN 0-521-78512-X Marello, Carla (1998) "Hornby's bilingualized dictionaries", in International Journal of Lexicography 11,4, pp. 292–314. Nielsen, Sandro (1994) The Bilingual LSP Dictionary, G. Narr. ISBN 978-3-8233-4533-6 Nielsen, Sandro (2008) "The effect of lexicographical information costs on dictionary making and use", in Lexikos (AFRILEX-reeks/series 18), pp. 170–189. Nielsen, Sandro (2009): "Reviewing printed and electronic dictionaries: A theoretical and practical framework". In S. Nielsen/S. Tarp (eds): Lexicography in the 21st Century. In honour of Henning Bergenholtz. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 23–41. ISBN 978-90-272-2336-4. Ooi, Vincent (1998) Computer Corpus Lexicography, Edinburgh U.P. [1] ISBN 0-7486-0815-X Zgusta, Ladislav (1971) Manual of lexicography (Janua Linguarum. Series maior 39). Prague: Academia / The Hague, Paris: Mouton. ISBN 978-90-279-1921-2
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