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Experiments with Distant Reading … in Portuguese
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In this chapter I will discuss a variety of distant reading studies in Portuguese, most of them, but not all, concerning literary works, which have mainly been
published in Portuguese.
After an introduction to the concept of distant reading and the macroscope (making things smaller as if increasing the distance, as opposed to microscope),
I report on an attempt to predict literary school from linguistic features. In this connection, I deal briefly with the issue of author style by comparing the relative number of nouns compared to verbs. Then, I present a study which analyzes places in Portuguese literature, both real and imaginary places, stressing the complexity of the notion of place in literary text. Next, I address the question of how people are described in lusophone literature by gender,
dividing characterizing expressions in four groups: appearance, social status, emotional character, and personality. These are all studies which look at the
number of particular features to compare works. The next study takes the character in a novel as unit: I describe a shared task (DIP) whose aim is to
characterize literary characters (their gender and profession or social status, as well as how many different names they have), and their family relationships,
and how it was the source of many insights on lusophone literature. I will also touch briefly upon some work in progress to measure “inner life” in literature, in the context of the comparison of different European literature through the ELTeC. Finally, targeting a very different kind of text, namely an encyclopedia
of Brazilian politicians and politics, I address socio-political studies about Q2 Brazil, namely the issue of family relationships among Brazilian politicians. I onclude the chapter with some remarks on methodology and what seems to be the way forward.
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