Corpus Linguistics and 17th-Century Prostitution

<p>Corpus linguistics has much to offer history being as both disciplines engage so heavily in analysis of large amounts of textual material. <p/>This open access book demonstrates the opportunities for exploring corpus linguistics as a method in historiography and the humanities and social sciences more generally. Focussing on the topic of prostitution in 17th-century England it shows how corpus methods can assist in social research and can be used to deepen our understanding and comprehension. <p/>McEnery and Baker draw principally on two sources - the newsbook Mercurius Fumigosis and the Early English Books Online Corpus. This scholarship on prostitution and the sex trade offers insight into the social position of women in history. <p/><i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by </i><i>Knowledge Unlatched.</i></p>