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Digital research methods of modern Ural poetry

T.F. Semyan, E.A. Smyshlyaev, M.A. Sholokhov
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UDC 821.161.1-1+004
DOI 10.20339/PhS.6-25.140

 

SemyanTatyana F.,

Doctor of Philology, Professor,

Head of the Russian Language and Literature Department

South Ural State University

e-mail: semiantf@susu.ru

Scopus Author ID 57395259300, WoS Researcher ID K-4818-2018

SPIN 7666-2753, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9380-1509

Smyshlyaev Evgeny A.,

Candidate of Philology,

Associate Professor of the Russian Language and Literature Department

South Ural State University

e-mail: smyshliaevea@susu.ru

Scopus Author ID 58223101200, WoS Researcher ID ABD-1726-2020

Sholokhov Matvey A.,

PhD student of the Russian Language and

Literature Department

South Ural State University

e-mail: mat-74@mail.ru

SPIN 7734-5398, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7505-3981

 

The digital turn that has occurred in recent decades has led to a boom in literary texts, including in the Ural Region. A qualitative study of each of them is a complex task, but all of them are valuable from the point of view of data science as important data on the self-identification of the Ural writers’ community. It is advisable to study a large volume of literary works using digital methods: the method of compiling frequency dictionaries, the method of thematic modeling and phonosemantic analysis, as well as the method of spatial analysis and literary cartography.

This article presents the key results of the research into the local specificity of literary texts by Ural authors using digital methods. Among the significant results of this study, it is worth highlighting the designation of key emotional categories in relation to the locus in the poetry of authors from the South Ural Region, as well as the designation of some key markers of the regional identity of South Ural poetry, such as brutality, rudeness of poetic language and the prevailing category of space.

The research material is a corpus of 500 poetic texts by contemporary Ural poets. The main principle of selecting the research material is inclusion of the texts by the authors under study in the “Anthology of Contemporary Ural Poetry” (Volumes 3 and 4), as well as interaction of artistic texts with the Ural locus (mentions of toponyms in texts, descriptions of a particular space of the Ural Region).

Keywords: digitalization, methodology, local text, contemporary literature, literary cartography, thematic modeling, phonosemantic analysis

 

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