Mining the language of the "rush" for gold in the 19th century. (March 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Mining the language of the "rush" for gold in the 19th century. (March 2022)
- Main Title:
- Mining the language of the "rush" for gold in the 19th century
- Authors:
- Carpenter, Lloyd
Fields, Alison - Abstract:
- This research seeks to identify newspapers' contribution to the construction of the language describing the era now popularly termed the "gold rush." We examine the early narratives of the first golden finds, tracing how these ignited a conflagration which would impact the whole world and examining the unique contribution made by the Hawai'ian Polynesian newspaper to spread the news to Australasia, the American East Coast, and even Great Britain. Employing text-mining tools offers a way of uncovering the language used in context and at source over the past two centuries, and to provide an overarching view of the language of the rush for gold. Text-mining tools and primary source newspapers are used to identify this contribution and the startling conclusion that the world experienced, not a rush for gold, but a fever, a mania, and even an excitement.
- Is Part Of:
- Newspaper research journal. Volume 43:Number 1(2022)
- Journal:
- Newspaper research journal
- Issue:
- Volume 43:Number 1(2022)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 43, Issue 1 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 43
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0043-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 29
- Page End:
- 46
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03
- Subjects:
- text mining -- language -- linguistics -- newspapers as primary source -- gold rush
Newspapers -- Periodicals
Journalism -- Periodicals
070.172 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202408 ↗
http://journals.sagepub.com/toc/NRJ/current ↗
http://www.uk.sagepub.com ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/07395329211073931 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0739-5329
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