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mark up Joyce's coinages and Joycean compound words #36

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JonathanReeve opened this issue Oct 18, 2015 · 5 comments
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mark up Joyce's coinages and Joycean compound words #36

JonathanReeve opened this issue Oct 18, 2015 · 5 comments

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JonathanReeve commented Oct 18, 2015

A word can count as a member of this category if:

  • it isn't in the OED
  • it's in the OED, but the first citation is from Joyce's Portrait (see pandybat)

Find these by using a spell checker.

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In particular, mark up Joycean compound words.

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Since I can't seem to find a more specific TEI convention for this, let's go with <seg type="neologism"> for now.

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jss2277 commented Sep 27, 2016

Hi! I want to help with this, but I'm not certain how to use the syntax.

If I was to try to mark "fiveshilling" in the first chapter as a neologism for being a Joycean compound word and not coming up in the OED, would I use the convention right before the word as such:
<seg type="neologism">fiveshilling
and then close it with the same tag, like this:
<seg type="neologism">fiveshilling</seg type="neologism">
or is there another way this should work?

This seems correct according the XML tutorial page I'm looking at, but I want to make sure before I go about making edits.

Also, if a word comes up in the OED, but as two separate words or a hyphenated word and is not as Joyce uses it, would you still like that tagged?

Thank you!

Edit: I think I figured it out. Should it be seg type="neologism"> fiveshilling /seg> (omitting the opening <s so it shows up on the page)?

jss2277 added a commit to jss2277/corpus-joyce-portrait-TEI that referenced this issue Sep 27, 2016
I went ahead and marked up all of Joyce's unique compound words along with the words that were even more uniquely his creations. If this isn't exactly what is wanted, I will be happy to fix whatever!
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You're really close! It's <seg type="neologism">fiveshilling</seg>. That can be difficult to type on GitHub, since these comments are interpreted in Markdown. You can surround code in backticks (`) to get it to display correctly.

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But I see from the commit that you've already figured it out! Looks great.

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Added neologism tags for chapter 1 - issue #36
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Similar to what happened between chapters 1 and 2, between chapters 2 and 3 there are also far fewer compound words, again symbolizing Stephen's growth and maturity as well as his realization of religion, which he had been ignoring up until the retreat.  
The priest calls his own speech a possible "turningpoint," which even the compound words seem to point towards.  Rather than friendlier words such as "moocow," "cinderpath," "milkcar," or "cricketbats," which are all reoccurring compounds thus far in the novel, following "turningpoint" are compounds like "plumpbellied rats," "lurkingplace," "bloodred," "sootcoated," "prisonhouse," "sincorrupted," and "redhot,"  all evoking imagery of hell, punishment, sin, etc.  In reading the novel through its compounds, readers can gain further insight into what really is on Stephen's mind from an unadulterated perspective, if the compounds are in fact representative of his truer thoughts.
@JonathanReeve JonathanReeve changed the title mark up neologisms mark up compound words and Joycean coinages Oct 1, 2017
@JonathanReeve JonathanReeve changed the title mark up compound words and Joycean coinages mark up compound words and Joyce's coinages Oct 1, 2017
@JonathanReeve JonathanReeve changed the title mark up compound words and Joyce's coinages mark up Joyce's coinages and Joycean compound words Oct 1, 2017
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