Stylometry

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Stylometrics (English stylometrics , stylometry ; French stylométrie ) is a discipline that conducts studies on the style of language using statistics . The term appears as early as the 19th century.

Objects of Stilometry

The objects of stylometry include the characterization and comparison of the style of authors, genres, individual works, epochs and the identification of anonymous authors as well as the chronological classification of works. It is also important for criminology ( forensic linguistics ), e.g. B. when analyzing anonymous documents. Her methods range from simple counts of style properties that are considered conspicuous, characteristic, or otherwise interesting enough, to the application of sophisticated procedures such as factor analysis and mathematical modeling of styles. To this extent, stylometry is largely identical to quantitative stylistics or style statistics .

Stylométrie as an integrative concept

In French linguistics, however , stylométrie is also used programmatically to distinguish it from quantitative stylistics ( stylistique quantitative ): Zemb (1970: 215) uses the term expressly to reject the view that there is a fundamental opposition between quantity and quality . As a special means of representation, he suggests stylograms ( stylogrammes ): graphic representations of stylistic properties that illustrate the difference between authors or works. Zemb also shows that the stylograms of the healthy and the mentally ill differ significantly.

Stilometry in Russian literary studies

NA Morozov (1854–1946) introduced the term stylometry in 1915/16 to Russian literary studies . "The aim of Morozov's investigation is to find stylometric laws that he postulates in analogy to laws in nature and in social life." Interest, says Kelih (p. 47).

literature

  • Wincenty Lutosławski: Principes de stylométrie . In: Revue des études grecques 41, 1890, pp. 61–81.
  • S. Michaelson & AQ Morton: Positional stylometry. In: AJ Aitken, RW Bailey, N. Hamilton-Smith (eds.): The Computer and Literary Studies. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1973, ISBN 0-85224-232-8 , pp. 69-83.
  • Michael P. Oakes: Statistics for Corpus Linguistics. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1988, ISBN 0-7486-1032-4 .
  • JM Zemb: La stylométrie . In: Pierre Guiraud & Pierre Kuentz (eds.): La stylistique. Lectures. Klincksieck, Paris 1970, pp. 214-222.
  • Patrick Juola: Authorship Attribution (PDF; 1.4 MB), Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval. Vol. 1, No. 3, 2006, pp. 233-334.
  • AV Zenkov: A Method of Text Attribution Based on the Statistics of Numerals . Journal of Quantitative Linguistics, 2018, Vol. 25, No.3, p. 256–270, doi : 10.1080 / 09296174.2017.1371915

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the information in: Juhan Tuldava: Stylistics, author identification , pp. 368-387, on Stylometrics, pp. 370f .; and Jadwiga Sambor, Adam Pawłowski: Quantitative linguistics in Poland , pp. 115-129; On stylometry p. 119ff .; both articles in: Reinhard Köhler, Gabriel Altmann, Gabriel, Rajmund G. Piotrowski (Eds.): Quantitative Linguistics - Quantitative Linguistics. An international manual . de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2005. ISBN 3-11-015578-8
  2. ↑ A short description of Zemb can be found in Bernd Spillner: Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft. Style research, rhetoric, text linguistics. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart a. a. 1974, p. 83. ISBN 3-17-001734-9
  3. ↑ Emmerich Kelih: History of the application of quantitative methods in Russian linguistics and literary studies. Kovač, Hamburg 2008, p. 46. ISBN 978-3-8300-3575-6 .
  4. ^ Adam Pawłowski: Wincenty Lutosławski (1863-1954). A Forgotten Father of Stylometry. In: Glottometrics 8, 2004, pp. 83-90 (PDF full text ).

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