Applying Digital Linguistics Techniques to Oral History Collections
18 November 2024, 1:25 pm–2:45 pm
We are pleased to welcome Chris Fitzgerald (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick) for this 'Voices Unbound?' seminar.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Organiser
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Marco Humbel, UCLDH Associate Director (ECR)
This talk will highlight the interdisciplinary potential between oral history and (corpus) linguistics. I will demonstrate how oral historians can gain insights from the application of various linguistics tools and competencies and how linguists can benefit from using oral history texts in their research as they present rich examples of authentic spoken language. Examples will be provided of studies that have bridged this interdisciplinary divide and projections will be presented as to how this synthesis may progress. Attendees will be exposed to various contemporary tools used in corpus linguistics as well as accessible and relevant oral history archives that they may wish to exploit for further research
All welcome to join this online seminar. Please register to receive the joining details: https://voices-unbound.eventbrite.co.uk
Voices unbound? Exploring new and/or possible directions in digital and experimental oral history
A lecture series co-organised by TU Darmstadt, UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) and the Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte. The series is convened by Julianne Nyhan (TU Darmstadt), Andrew Flinn, Andreas Vlachidis, and Marco Humbel (UCL), Shih-Pei Chen (Max Planck Institute), and Gerben Zaagsma (C²DH), offering an important way of keeping up to date with the methodological and theoretical state of the art in digital oral history. We invited speakers to present work on recent technological developments that may hold promise for digital oral history. In this way, the seminar series appeals to (digital) oral historians, digital humanists and scholars of the history of information, memory and knowledge systems.
About the Speaker
Chris Fitzgerald
Assistant Lecturer in English Language and Literature at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
He was a post-doctoral research fellow on the Interactional Variation Online (see ivohub.com) project, which involved a multimodal discourse analysis of online meetings. Apart from this, his research has focused on corpus linguistics applied to various registers and genres of discourse with a prominent focus on oral histories. He has published extensively in this area, including two books with Routledge: Investigating a Corpus of Historical Oral Testimonies: The Linguistic Construction of Certainty (2023) and Corpus Linguistics for Oral History (with Ivor Timmis, 2024). In addition, Chris is the editor of a forthcoming (2025) volume with Bloomsbury, Linguistics and Oral History: Towards and Interdisciplinary Approach