Attractive connections of markemes in V. V. Nabokov’s novel “Mashenka” and their visualisation
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17308/lic.2020.4/3088Keywords:
digital humanities, markemology, index of textual markedness, coefficient of constellation, integrated markeme weight, attractive connections by markeme, V. V. Nabokov’s novel «Mashenka»Abstract
The paper deals with one of the modern methods of identifying key words in the text – quantitative markeme analysis performed on the material of the novel by V. V. Nabokov: «Mashenka» with the help of quantitative data obtained as a result of using computer program (ProTemAl) and lemmatization of words in automatic mode with the help of ADD-2 program. Based on InTem and distribution analysis, there were distinguished 50 markemes of the novel by V. Nabokov, which takes into account contextual meanings and associative connotations of the words. To carry out the markeme-semantic analysis, the program «Const_2018_v3» detects the “attractiveness” of markemes (their ability to «attract» each other in the text), creates a table of attractive pairs, based on which a graph is built, visualizing the attraction connections of markemes in the novel «Mashenka» by sorting markemes in descending order of CoCon values. Based on the graph the conclusion is made about the existence of two semantic centers in the novel: «Coolness», which associatively refers to the feeling of «Cool haze» of what is happening, and «Snow», which correlates with the time of «Snow» the St. Petersburg’s period of love and with Russia.
