Svenja Guhr: Literary Soundscapes – Operationalization and Analysis

The Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies would like to invite you to the following talk in our DH Colloquium:

Svenja Guhr: »Literary Soundscapes – Operationalization and Analysis«

Abstract

Sound is omnipresent in our everyday life, and it is also represented in literary texts: Whether howling wind, babbling brook, screaming girls, or rattling trains - their explicit representation is manifold and enriches the scene setting with information about the soundscapes of fictional worlds. The talk is dedicated to the operationalization of sounds as event units in literary prose, which can be manually but also automatically annotated and relationally divided into different levels of loudness which opens new possibilities for the computational analysis of fictional soundscapes.

Further information and other upcoming talks in the Colloquium can be found here.