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Topic Modeling for the Identification of Gender-specific Discourse. Virtues and Vices in French and Spanish 18th Century Periodicals

Völkl, Yvonne ; Sarić, Sanja ; Scholger, Martina (2023)
Topic Modeling for the Identification of Gender-specific Discourse. Virtues and Vices in French and Spanish 18th Century Periodicals.
In: Journal of Computational Literary Studies, 2022, 1 (1)
doi: 10.26083/tuprints-00023249
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Item Type: Article
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Topic Modeling for the Identification of Gender-specific Discourse. Virtues and Vices in French and Spanish 18th Century Periodicals
Language: English
Date: 2023
Place of Publication: Darmstadt
Year of primary publication: 2022
Publisher: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Darmstadt
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Computational Literary Studies
Volume of the journal: 1
Issue Number: 1
Collation: 27 Seiten
DOI: 10.26083/tuprints-00023249
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Origin: Secondary publication from TUjournals
Abstract:

Gender-specific knowledge – just like knowledge in general – is generated through discourses that are disseminated through (mass) media. Among the first mass media is the Spectator press (Moralische Wochenschriften) which spread all over Europe throughout the 18th century. With their gender-specific discourses, analyzed in Spectatoriale Geschlechterkonstruktionen (Völkl 2022), they decisively promote the development of a (bourgeois) gender model, shaping the social perception of gender until today. Against this background, the present article examines the gender-specific discourses in the French and Spanish Spectator periodicals by means of topic modeling which detects semantically related words. The study, which originates from the project Distant Spectators. Distant Reading for Periodicals of the Enlightenment (Scholger et al. 2019–2021), shows that topic modeling reinforces previous findings on gender-specific discourses in the Spectator periodicals. Moreover, it offers new perspectives concerning this research corpus.

Uncontrolled Keywords: topic modeling, French, Spanish, Spectator press, 18th century, Literary Gender Studies
Status: Publisher's Version
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-232495
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Urspr. Konferenzveröffentlichung/Originally conference publication: 1st Annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, 01.-02.06.2022, Darmstadt, Germany

Classification DDC: 800 Literature > 800 Literature, rhetoric and criticism
Divisions: 02 Department of History and Social Science > Institut für Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Digital Philology – Modern German Literary Studies
Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2023 10:10
Last Modified: 23 Feb 2023 08:57
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/23249
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