Towards an Ontology and Epistemology of Text Reuse

Paju, Petri; Rantala, Heli; Salmi, Hannu

doi:10.1515/9783110729214-012

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“…Ofta rör det sig om just dikter, anekdoter och diverse prosaberättelser. 23 När Eskilstuna Tidning publicerade dikten den andra december 1837 var det med en ny titel: "Borttappadt". Den var tryckt i antikva, stavningen hade moderniserats och de flesta substantiv hade fått liten bokstav.…”

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Jarlbrink

2024

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Sewing Pouch on the Run: Lenngren, Text Reuse, and Recontextualizations This article is tracing a newspaper poem, originally published in 1795 in the section for lost and found, and reprinted repeatedly in newspapers in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The poem describes a girl who has lost a pouch with her sewing kit on a walk through Stockholm. The one who returns it is promised two sugar breads and a kiss as a reward. It was published anonymously but Anna Maria Lenngren was later identified as the author. Following the poem from paper to paper reveals a network of text reuse where texts were borrowed, edited and recontextualized. Several papers all around Sweden published the verse as an anonymous advertisement from 1837 to 1868. Yet, among other things, the editors also changed the place name mentioned in the poem to make it seem as if it was written by a local girl. Another version of the text was widely circulated in papers from 1887 to 1917. This version was truer to the original wording of the poem, but it was published along with an anecdote identifying Lenngren herself as the girl in the text, making it part of her own marriage proposal. This time the poem was placed in the section for humorous titbits, among gossip and funny stories. The different versions of the poem illustrate how newspapers could function as a medium for literature in the nineteenth century. The practice of text reuse had the potential of maximizing the readership but could also mean that authors lost control over their words. When poems became “fugitive verses” in the network of newspapers, they entered a fluid state where authorships were destabilized and texts were recontextualized to fit on the newspaper page.

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Jarlbrink

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“…Previous research, for example, has shown the importance of telegraph lines and railways in the spread of information within the United States (Smith et al, 2013) and pointed to individual cities as information dissemination hubs (Cordell, 2015;Salmi et al, 2020). Other work has studied multilingual information flows from a transnational perspective to examine the connections, gaps and silences in the system, and the press as a site of manipulation (Keck et al, 2022;Paasikivi et al, 2022;Paju et al, 2023).…”

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“…Virality is more commonly understood as a phenomenon of the internet era and is associated with three characteristics: High speed, high volume and the ability to adapt and spread quickly. Paju et al (2022) have used text reuse data in an attempt to measure and compare different degrees of virality for content that was republished within days or weeks. They define a virality score based on the number of titles within a cluster, the number of unique printing locations, and the distance in days between the first and last passage publication date.…”

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impresso Text Reuse at Scale. An interface for the exploration of text reuse data in semantically enriched historical newspapers

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Romanello,

Ehrmann

et al. 2023

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Text Reuse reveals meaningful reiterations of text in large corpora. Humanities researchers use text reuse to study, e.g., the posterior reception of influential texts or to reveal evolving publication practices of historical media. This research is often supported by interactive visualizations which highlight relations and differences between text segments. In this paper, we build on earlier work in this domain. We present impresso Text Reuse at Scale, the to our knowledge first interface which integrates text reuse data with other forms of semantic enrichment to enable a versatile and scalable exploration of intertextual relations in historical newspaper corpora. The Text Reuse at Scale interface was developed as part of the impresso project and combines powerful search and filter operations with close and distant reading perspectives. We integrate text reuse data with enrichments derived from topic modeling, named entity recognition and classification, language and document type detection as well as a rich set of newspaper metadata. We report on historical research objectives and common user tasks for the analysis of historical text reuse data and present the prototype interface together with the results of a user evaluation.

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Towards an Ontology and Epistemology of Text Reuse

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