Aus unseren Neuerwerbungen – Digital Humanities 2024.7

Cor­pus use in cross-lin­guis­tic research: Paving the way for teach­ing, trans­la­tion and pro­fes­sion­al com­mu­ni­ca­tion
Cross-lin­guis­tic research is a fruit­ful field of lan­guage inquiry that has ben­e­fit­ed enor­mous­ly from the use of cor­po­ra. As sources of lin­guis­tic data of var­i­ous kinds and as tools for lan­guage pro­cess­ing, cor­po­ra have shaped the devel­op­ment of cross-lin­guis­tic research, enabling both lan­guage descrip­tion and prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tions. This vol­ume con­tains twelve stud­ies that empha­size the use­ful­ness and usabil­i­ty of par­al­lel cor­po­ra in accu­rate­ly explor­ing the struc­ture and use of sev­en under-researched lan­guages and lan­guage vari­eties. The first part empha­sizes the role of cor­pus-based descrip­tive analy­ses at the lex­i­cogram­mat­i­cal and dis­cur­sive lev­els, as a first step on the way towards con­crete appli­ca­tions like trans­la­tion or lan­guage teach­ing. The sec­ond part focus­es on the role of par­al­lel-cor­pus-based lan­guage pro­cess­ing tech­niques and appli­ca­tions that facil­i­tate pro­fes­sion­al com­mu­ni­ca­tion. This book will be of inter­est to schol­ars in con­trastive lin­guis­tics, trans­la­tion stud­ies, dis­course analy­sis, lan­guage teach­ing, and nat­ur­al lan­guage pro­cess­ing.
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The Human­i­ties Reloaded: Address­ing Cri­sis
This vol­ume exam­ines the cri­sis of human­i­ties nar­ra­tives in the con­text of neolib­er­al cap­i­tal­ism and of the emer­gence and con­sol­i­da­tion of the met­rics-dri­ven, cor­po­rate, man­age­r­i­al uni­ver­si­ty. Do nar­ra­tives of the cri­sis of the human­i­ties mobi­lize spe­cif­ic notions of val­ue and pres­tige? How are these notions classed, gen­dered and racial­ized? How do nar­ra­tives of the cri­sis of the human­i­ties relate to cur­rent debates and con­tes­ta­tions sur­round­ing decol­o­niza­tion? Does the cri­sis of a tra­di­tion­al con­fig­u­ra­tion of the human­i­ties open up oppor­tu­ni­ties to use their insti­tu­tion­al space for work that is both social­ly and polit­i­cal­ly rel­e­vant and aca­d­e­m­i­cal­ly rig­or­ous? The aim is to pro­vide a counter-nar­ra­tive of the present and future of the human­i­ties.
In addi­tion to the study of a mul­ti­plic­i­ty of media texts and oth­er mul­ti­modal expres­sive forms, for­mats and plat­forms and gen­res, a com­mu­nica­tive turn in the human­i­ties entails deep­en­ing the study of the val­ue chains in which they are insert­ed and their con­di­tions of pro­duc­tion, cir­cu­la­tion and recep­tion. Com­mu­nica­tive and dig­i­tal cap­i­tal­ism, now labelled the Fourth Indus­tri­al Rev­o­lu­tion, is on its way to bring­ing its own waves of strug­gles and con­fronta­tions to our cam­pus­es and beyond, to which human­i­ties schol­ars and activists can make a vital contribution—should some of us decide to do so.
This book will be of inter­est to researchers and advanced stu­dents of art, lit­er­a­ture, media and cul­tur­al stud­ies, edu­ca­tion, pol­i­tics, soci­ol­o­gy, and social and cul­tur­al anthro­pol­o­gy.
The chap­ters in this book were orig­i­nal­ly pub­lished in the jour­nal Crit­i­cal Arts: South-North Cul­tur­al and Media Stud­ies.
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