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Text encoding, theory, and English: A critical relation.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Text encoding, theory, and English: A critical relation./
Author:	Caton, Paul.
Description:	181 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1755.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-05A.
Subject:	Language, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3134258
ISBN:	0496814861

Text encoding, theory, and English: A critical relation.
Caton, Paul.

Text encoding, theory, and English: A critical relation. - 181 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1755.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brown University, 2004.

This dissertation examines the developing practice of text encoding and in particular the strengths and weaknesses of its efforts to inscribe itself in the intellectual structures of the humanities. Text encoding involves identifying and labeling textual constituents according to a markup language whose vocabulary consists of a defined set of labels (tags ), and whose grammar is the set of rules governing the possible application and combination of those labels. In the relatively young but growing field of humanities computing, text encoding has become the primary means of creating manipulable and searchable digital representations of texts. It is the enabling technology behind the digital library and the digital scholarly edition. The account falls into two parts. Part One gives a critical account of text encoding itself, explaining, engaging, and developing its conceptual vocabulary. Detailed discussions of some important questions in text encoding theory and application show that this branch of humanities computing offers English studies new spaces for abstract thinking about textuality. Reciprocally, theoretical approaches common in English can illuminate problems in text encoding. For example, Bakhtin's notion of the utterance proves extremely helpful in conceptualizing 'the text' as an object of encoding. Text encoding must broaden its theoretical horizons and undoubtedly English has much to offer it, but if it adopts wholesale and uncritically the modality of theory in English, it simply repeats the occlusion of oppositional alternatives. Part Two is a prolegomena to a possible relationship. It argues for a necessary dialectic in which text encoding, if it is to grow beyond a narrow formalism, must undertake the rigorous self-reflection English studies continually undergoes. For both fields, however, self critique should not be an end in itself but a means towards realizing an academic praxis that produces greater social justice rather than simply the accumulation of 'knowledge.'

ISBN: 0496814861Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018089
Language, General.

Text encoding, theory, and English: A critical relation.
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