Ploughboys and soldiers: The folk song and the gramophone in the british expeditionary force 1914–1918

Hiley, Nicholas

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“…Coulter proposed the word subitize, which was subsequently adopted by the psychological community. Finally, there is the remarkable Daisy C. Daking (1884Daking ( -1942 who taught English country dancing to troops behind the lines in World War I (Hiley, 1998). Daking (1933) also wrote a book on Jungian Psychology and Modern Spiritual Thought, thus introducing the eponym Jungian.…”

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The digital history of the anglophone vocabulary of psychology: An exploration using Zipfian methods.

Benjafield¹

2016

History of Psychology

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The digital humanities are being applied with increasing frequency to the analysis of historically important texts. In this study, the methods of G. K. Zipf are used to explore the digital history of the vocabulary of psychology. Zipf studied a great many phenomena, from word frequencies to city sizes, showing that they tend to have a characteristic distribution in which there are a few cases that occur very frequently and many more cases that occur very infrequently. We find that the number of new words and word senses that writers contribute to the vocabulary of psychology have such a Zipfian distribution. Moreover, those who make the most contributions, such as William James, tend also to invent new metaphorical senses of words rather than new words. By contrast, those who make the fewest contributions tend to invent entirely new words. The use of metaphor makes a text easier for a reader to understand. While the use of new words requires more effort on the part of the reader, it may lead to more precise understanding than does metaphor. On average, new words and word senses become a part of psychology's vocabulary in the time leading up to World War I, suggesting that psychology was "finding its language" (Danziger, 1997) during this period.

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The digital history of the anglophone vocabulary of psychology: An exploration using Zipfian methods.

Benjafield¹

2016

History of Psychology

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“…From their leisure, they took away pride in their oppositional nature. They would carry the irreverent attitudes of the music hall into World War I, in songs that were by this time part of a commercial culture that fully embraced mechanical reproduction [13].…”

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Parricide on the QT: Notoriety and knowingness at the dawn of new media

Leonard¹

1999

Media History

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War and Music

Sweeney¹

2011

The Encyclopedia of War

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War and music have been intertwined since ancient times. Music propelled fighters into battle and signaled retreats, while soldiers' heroic deeds or sad deaths inspired composers. In many cases, a conflict stimulated the production of music for both amateurs and professionals, especially during the massive nationalist wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Wars have also stimulated musical exchanges with armies sharing tunes or adopting new instruments. And technology has dramatically changed how music can be conveyed—from being memorized, carried in songbooks, or played with instruments, to being reproduced on radio or compact discs.

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Ploughboys and soldiers: The folk song and the gramophone in the british expeditionary force 1914–1918

Cited by 21 publications

References 2 publications

The digital history of the anglophone vocabulary of psychology: An exploration using Zipfian methods.

The digital history of the anglophone vocabulary of psychology: An exploration using Zipfian methods.

Parricide on the QT: Notoriety and knowingness at the dawn of new media

War and Music

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