Blue eyes and porcelain cheeks: Computational extraction of physical descriptions from Dutch chick lit and literary novels

Koolen, Corina; Cranenburgh, Andreas van

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“…Ik heb gesuggereerd dat literaire schrijvers een voorkeur lijken te hebben voor deze meer impliciete beschrijving van emoties dan schrijvers van populaire teksten of teksten voor kinderen. Wellicht is dit een onderwerp voor nadere studie, RILLEN VAN ANGST EN BLAKEN VAN ZELFVERTROUWEN nu corpusonderzoek het mogelijk maakt om talige aspecten van literaire teksten te vergelijken met fictie die niet als literatuur met een hoofdletter L wordt aangemerkt (Koolen & van 2018).…”

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Rillen van angst en blaken van zelfvertrouwen

Hoeksema

2022

Nederlandse Taalkunde

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Dutch van is used to mark emotions and feelings which cause bodily reactions and mental states in combinations such as rillen van angst 'shiver with fear', sprakeloos van verbazing 'speechless with astonishment' and blaken van zelfvertrouwen 'beam with self-confidence'. The classification of emotions along the four dimensions of evaluation (valence), potency (control), activation (arousal) and (un)predictability of Fontaine ( 2006) is discussed and shown to be of linguistic interest. Predicates such as stralen 'beam' or het uitschreeuwen 'to cry (it) out' have strong collocation relations with words denoting emotional extremes on one of the four axes, such as high valence or high arousal. While most of the paper is devoted to the construction with causative van, some suggestive evidence from adverbs of degree is offered to make a broader case for the usefulness of the four dimensions in linguistic research.

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Rillen van angst en blaken van zelfvertrouwen

Hoeksema

2022

Nederlandse Taalkunde

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Constructing Age for Young Readers

Joosen¹

2021

Intl Research in Children's Literature

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Children's literature studies has been relatively slow in adopting techniques from digital humanities. This article explains a method for digitising, annotating, and analysing texts in xml to investigate the implicit age norms that children's books convey. The case studies are seventeen books by Bart Moeyaert and La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman. The analysis of speech distribution, topic modelling, syntactic parsing, and lexical analysis with digital tools adds information about implicit age norms that can support and inspire narrative analyses with close reading.

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Blue eyes and porcelain cheeks: Computational extraction of physical descriptions from Dutch chick lit and literary novels

Cited by 2 publications

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Rillen van angst en blaken van zelfvertrouwen

Rillen van angst en blaken van zelfvertrouwen

Constructing Age for Young Readers

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