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- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 From the Early Modern Era to an International Research Area
- 2 A Phonological–Graphemic Approach to the Investigation of Spelling Functionality, with Reference to Early Modern Polish
- 3 Graphematic Features in Glagolitic and Cyrillic Orthographies
- 4 The Emergence of Sentence-internal Capitalisation in Early New High German
- 5 Punctuation in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century French and Spanish Grammars
- 6 Orthographic Variation and Materiality of a Manuscript Pre-standard Lithuanian Spellings in Simonas Daukantas’s ‘History of the Lithuanian Lowlands’ (1831–4)
- 7 Investigating Methods Intra-textual, Inter-textual and Cross-textual Variable Analyses
- 8 Orthography and Group Identity A Comparative Approach to Studying Orthographic Systems in Early Modern Czech Printed and Handwritten Texts (c. 1560‒1710)
- 9 Orthographic Solutions at the Onset of Early Modern Croatian
- 10 Women’s Spelling in Early Modern English
- 11 Towards a Relativity of Spelling Change
- 12 Synergic Dialogue in Historical Orthography National Philologies, Comparability and Questions for the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - Investigating Methods Intra-textual, Inter-textual and Cross-textual Variable Analyses
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 November 2020
- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- 1 From the Early Modern Era to an International Research Area
- 2 A Phonological–Graphemic Approach to the Investigation of Spelling Functionality, with Reference to Early Modern Polish
- 3 Graphematic Features in Glagolitic and Cyrillic Orthographies
- 4 The Emergence of Sentence-internal Capitalisation in Early New High German
- 5 Punctuation in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century French and Spanish Grammars
- 6 Orthographic Variation and Materiality of a Manuscript Pre-standard Lithuanian Spellings in Simonas Daukantas’s ‘History of the Lithuanian Lowlands’ (1831–4)
- 7 Investigating Methods Intra-textual, Inter-textual and Cross-textual Variable Analyses
- 8 Orthography and Group Identity A Comparative Approach to Studying Orthographic Systems in Early Modern Czech Printed and Handwritten Texts (c. 1560‒1710)
- 9 Orthographic Solutions at the Onset of Early Modern Croatian
- 10 Women’s Spelling in Early Modern English
- 11 Towards a Relativity of Spelling Change
- 12 Synergic Dialogue in Historical Orthography National Philologies, Comparability and Questions for the Future
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter presents an overview of different methods of data collection (intra-textual, inter-textual and cross-textual variable analyses) and explains and discusses in detail their advantages and disadvantages. The chapter approaches the methods in question in two ways: firstly, some fundamental problems for each method are addressed on an abstract level, then these problems are illustrated using examples from the German-speaking territories of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a period of significant spelling variation. The chapter concludes that each method of description of itself favours certain types of explanatory hypotheses, and makes readers more aware of the presuppositions that may affect the outcome of an investigation, even before data analysis.
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- Advances in Historical Orthography, c. 1500–1800 , pp. 141 - 153Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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