The text-based subjects we are dealing here with are the following:
| Language | Literature | Linguistics |
| Cultural Studies | History | Philosophy |
In the following you find a list of methods and other elements, which are used in text-based disciplines. Most of them apply to all the humanities subjects. Examples of courses where a certain method / a certain element is used are given in the last column.
| Functions | Types of Courses | Some Commonly Used Programs | Links to Some Examples |
| Text analysis | |||
| This includes simple texts retrieval and also content analysis, stylistic analysis and linguistic analysis, by production of concordances, thesauri and indexes. | Used in all text based disciplines.
Especially for Corpus Linguistics and Lexicography. |
TACT
Wordsmith Concordance LEXA |
Corpus-based studies of varieties of Romance languages
Corpus Linguistics at the University of Bologna Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice |
| Databases | |||
| Collections of structured data organised for easy
retrieval of the data.
There are many large web databases of bibliographies, texts etc. |
Used in all disciplines.
|
MS Access Filemaker Pro MS FoxPro Paradox
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Lexicography:
The Historical Thesaurus of English:
Archaeology: Archaeology on the Net Danish periodicals and newspapers: Den Danske artikelbase |
| Quantitative methods | |||
| Data analysis using statistical methods | Used in all disciplines. | SPSS | Lexical statistics in Computers and the Humanities "How Variable May a Constant be? Measures of Lexical Richness in Perspective" |
| Hypertext | |||
| Hypertext is used to make links between information. Hypertext is the medium of the World Wide Web but can also be used for local documents. | Used in all disciplines. | Toolbook Adobe Acrobat |
Spanish
teaching at the University of St Andrew's
The Orb Literary texts with links. |
| Text and image capture | |||
| Texts scanned using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) programs, and scanned images, are used to create digital content for text analysis, course materials, web pages etc. | Used in all disciplines. | ScanSoft, OmniPage Pro, TextBridge Pro Millennium, TextBridge Pro 8.0 Macintosh | List of OCR sources on the Web |
| Sounds and moving images | |||
| Multi media materials are used to enhance many computer based teaching materials. | Used in all disciplines. | Sounds, video | Language learning at the University of Leeds
Oxford University Language Centre links to Web and multi-media |
| The Web as a research tool | |||
| a lot of information found on the web can
be used to enhance courses
or as research material |
Used in all disciplines. | Browsers like Netscape and Internet Explorer | Introduction to Romance linguistics |
| Last modified: 14 October 2000 |
| Elisabeth Burr |