{"id":545,"date":"2018-12-29T19:06:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T03:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/?p=545"},"modified":"2018-12-29T19:11:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T03:11:06","slug":"2-methods-of-text-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/2-methods-of-text-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Methods of Text Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Individual Assignment<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>DUE: <\/strong>February 12, 2019<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Purpose:<\/strong> This assignment asks you to start analyzing your text corpus\nor a subset of it, which allows you to practice the skills you\u2019re learning\nbefore your midterm exam. As you apply the text analysis skills to your own\nproject, you will also practice one of the most difficult aspects of this work:\nthinking through what the methods reveal and what the results mean. The subsequent\nnarrative you draft as you think through these questions can also be used in\nyour final project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Task:<\/strong> Analyze 1-2 research questions\nusing at least 2 methods you\u2019ve learned so far. Briefly describe the method you\u2019ve\nchosen, why, and write a paragraph of analysis based on each method. &nbsp;Be sure to include any visualizations you\ncreate or code you write and its output.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Criteria for Success:<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>(25 pts)\nList research question(s)<\/li><li>(25 pts) Describe\n<strong>2<\/strong> chosen methods and why they\nare appropriate to your question(s).<\/li><li>(25 pts)\nVisualizations or code + output for <strong>both<\/strong>\nmethods.<\/li><li>(75 pts)\nAnalysis: Describe what the output shows and what it means in the context of\nyour question(s).<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Example:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is an example from the field of literature that explores the function of the word \u201ccome\u201d in <em>Hamlet<\/em>. \u00a0You can view the<a href=\"https:\/\/voyant-tools.org\/?corpus=14acac799732b730b3065447006e2c43. \"> Voyant Tools suite pre-loaded with the play, separated by scene<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Research Questions:<\/em> What function does the word, \u201ccome\u201d serve\nin <em>Hamlet<\/em>? What does its usage tell\nus about gender and the political hierarchy throughout the play? &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Methods: <\/em>In Voyant Tools, we can use the Contexts and Reader tools to examine\neach case in which &#8220;come&#8221; appears in the text to develop a social\nhierarchy based on who gives and receives the command \u201ccome.\u201d The Contexts tool\nshows either the most frequently occurring word (by default) in context or the\nword a user has input. The user can control the number of words shown on each\nside. By selecting an entry in Contexts, the passage will be highlighted in the\nReader, which shows the text or corpus in its entirety. This feature is shown in\nthe image below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"492\" src=\"http:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/files\/2018\/12\/Hamlet-VoyantSuite-1024x492.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/files\/2018\/12\/Hamlet-VoyantSuite-1024x492.png 1024w, https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/files\/2018\/12\/Hamlet-VoyantSuite-300x144.png 300w, https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/files\/2018\/12\/Hamlet-VoyantSuite-768x369.png 768w, https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/files\/2018\/12\/Hamlet-VoyantSuite-750x360.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Analysis: <\/em>The first appearance of the use of\n&#8220;come&#8221; as an imperative is Claudius speaking to Gertrude. In the\nsecond instance, Polonius is admonishing his daughter, Ophelia, who responds,\n\u201cI shall obey, my lord&#8221;(1.4.145). The following hierarchy of characters\u2019\npower over narrative time results from an examination of each instance of \u201ccome\u201d\nused as an imperative: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>[Insert hierarchy]<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The only time\nwe see Claudius issue this particular imperative (&#8220;come&#8221;) to Hamlet\nis in the final scene of the play in which he has conspired to kill his\nstep-son\/nephew. We suspect that Claudius is worried that Hamlet will expose\nhis treachery, thereby thwarting all his work to attain the throne. Cladius&#8217; perhaps\nunrecognized, abstention from issuing a command to Hamlet that authority\nfigures commonly used with those of inferior status throughout the play\nsuggests an additional hypothesis. Until the moment when Claudius believes he\nhas won and Hamlet is about to die, he implicitly recognizes Hamlet as the\nrightful heir to the throne by refraining from issuing the command,\n&#8220;come.&#8221; This is a hypothesis that could be further tested with more\nsophisticated and flexible tools, such as the Natural Language Toolkit package\nfor Python.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can also\nexamine cases in which a command is given but not obeyed, as is frequently the\ncase between Gertrude and Hamlet. Almost every time she tries to issue an\nimperative, Hamlet&#8217;s response is obstinate defiance. In 3.2.115-117, Gertrude\nrequests Hamlet to sit by her, &#8220;Come hither, my dear Hamlet, sit by\nme.&#8221; To which Hamlet replies, &#8220;No, good mother. Here&#8217;s metal more\nattractive,&#8221; and sits near Ophelia. This appears innocent enough, but\nHamlet&#8217;s response becomes much more aggressive in Act 3, Scene 4 when\nconfronting Gertrude with her quick remarriage and even upends the parent-child\npower relationship by issuing multiple commands to Gertrude in response to her\nuse of the imperative &#8220;come.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This assignment asks you to start analyzing your text corpus or a subset of it, which allows you to practice the skills you\u2019re learning before your midterm exam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[21,23],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-assignments","tag-assignments","tag-individual-assignment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":552,"href":"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asandersgarcia.humspace.ucla.edu\/courses\/dh150w19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}