Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
7-2011
Abstract
This article explores how contemporary historians can avail themselves of quantitative approaches to examine how elusive concepts like ‘time’ and ‘space’ have been used in the public domain. By making use of specifically designed programs, historians can use digital tools to harness an unprecedented mass of information. This is a particularly important methodological innovation at a time of rapidly expanding data: news, speeches, and commentary are available first electronically, and they are available on countless sites in an unprecedented array of formats. Mastering these sources digitally is not only imperative for the contemporary historian; it also provides essential source material for understanding how language and meanings change over time, between contexts, and across different media.
Keywords
Communication, Place, Rhetoric, Space, Time
Discipline
Political Science
Research Areas
Political Science
Publication
Journal of Contemporary History
Volume
46
Issue
3
First Page
592
Last Page
609
ISSN
0022-0094
Identifier
10.1177/0022009411403340
Publisher
SAGE Publications (UK and US)
Citation
HART, Roderick P., & LIM, Elvin T..(2011). Tracking the language of time and space, 1945-2008. Journal of Contemporary History, 46(3), 592-609.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2809
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Additional URL
https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009411403340