De onderzoeksgroep DiaLing ontvangt gastspreker Prof. Margherita Fantoli, die een lezing zal houden over “Measuring formulaicity in scientific and technical texts.”
Abstract: “Latin technical and scientific prose has been generally disregarded from stylistic studies. However, scientific and technical writings display specific features (from the lexicon to the pragmatics) that are worth investigating. In this talk, I will focus on the notion of formulaicity: while the role of formulae in literary works, such as the homeric poems, has been the object of several investigations, its presence at the core of scientific texts has received less attention. In the first part of the talk, I’ll focus on how formulaicity has been defined and analyzed in previous studies of technical/scientific texts. Secondly, I’ll suggest computational methods to support the identification of formulae in Latin scientific texts and their function.”