Korpus tekstowy jako narzędzie literaturoznawcze
Text Corpus as a Tool for Literary Studies

Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the methodology of creating corpora (collections of texts) thatallow for the application of quantitative methods and drawing conclusions about thebroader sampled population. In particular, the discussed corpora provide a snapshot ofthe discourse of a specific period, which can be used in diachronic analysis or the studyof processes in the history of literature. Digital literary studies need corpora to apply itsmethods and to expand our understanding of such processes as the evolution of genres,literary concepts, or styles. We begin our discussion with a general overview of corpora asresearch datasets in various disciplines. We then focus on literary studies by scrutinizinganthologies qua proto-corpora, which seem to have served a similar function, albeitin a different methodological context. These explorations lead us to the review of selectedcorpora in literary studies. In conclusion, we present the main challenges of the work onthe Corpus of Literary Studies Discourse (Korpus Dyskursu Literaturoznawczego; KDL).

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