{"id":178,"date":"2016-09-07T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmcp.byu.edu\/?page_id=178"},"modified":"2017-08-10T01:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T01:30:22","slug":"applied-hermeneutica","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cmcp.byu.edu\/index.php\/applied-hermeneutica\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaffolded Hermeneutica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In their book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/hermeneutica\"><em>Hermeneutica<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0St\u00e9fan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell argue for more responsive and accessible methods\u00a0of digital analyses in the humanities. Combining aspects of agile programming with web-based text processing tools, they propose that humanities scholars explore their texts to find\u00a0new questions as well as\u00a0uncover evidence to support (or draw into question) existing literary theories.<\/p>\n<p>Although the CMCP is built on\u00a0this model, it extends <em>Hermeneutica<\/em> in three\u00a0ways:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The CMCP offers structure to support scholarly play with Voyant Tools, the analyses environtment\u00a0developed by Sinclair and Rockwell. This website organizes McCarthy&#8217;s work into several corpora and\u00a0pre-loads each corpus into a customized version of Voyant. The purpose of this organization is to make these tools more accessible for all scholars.<\/li>\n<li>Besides Voyant Tools, the CMCP offers a Sentence Structure Search tool, and we plan to include other tools preloaded with the text of McCarthy&#8217;s work.<\/li>\n<li>The CMCP facilitates scholarly citation of analyses completed in Voyant Tools and other resources.\u00a0The corpora in the CMCP are versioned, so if errors are discovered in a current corpus, the corpus will not be deleted or altered; rather, the corrected corpus will be posted as a new version, preserving the documentation of previous corpora. Also, each corpus-tool combination includes an MLA-style citation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In their book,\u00a0Hermeneutica,\u00a0St\u00e9fan Sinclair and Geoffrey Rockwell argue for more responsive and accessible methods\u00a0of digital analyses in the humanities. Combining aspects of agile programming with web-based text processing tools, they propose that humanities scholars explore their texts to find\u00a0new questions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cmcp.byu.edu\/index.php\/applied-hermeneutica\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-178","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmcp.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmcp.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmcp.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmcp.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmcp.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cmcp.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/cmcp.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/178\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmcp.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}