This document provides an overview of the CLic Corpora project and how it can be used to analyze literary texts through corpus linguistics. It introduces Digital Humanities and describes how the CLic web app allows users to search corpora and view concordance lines. An example is provided analyzing character descriptions of Mrs. Sparsit in Dickens' Hard Times by searching for her name and viewing suspensions in the concordance. The output shows interruptions in her speech and descriptions of her body language.

1. Computational
Humanities:
The CLic Corpora
Paper no.204
Contemporary Western Theories and
Film Studies
Paper Code:22409
Prepared by Divya Sheta

2. ❖ Name: Divya Sheta
❖ MA Part II, Semester III
❖ Roll No.06
❖ Enrollment Number : 4069206420210033
❖ Contact Info : divyasheta@gmail.com
❖ Submitted to: S.B.Gardi Department of English,
MK Bhavnagar University.

3. TABLE OF CONTENTS
What is Digital
Humanities
Computational Humanities under
Digital Humanities
01
About CLic Corpora
Introduction of CLiC Dickens Project
02
Activity in CLic
Social protest writing:
Hard Times
03
Output of Searching
04

4. What is Digital Humanities
● Digital Humanities is an evolving field that uses digital technology and
resources in the study of humanities disciplines such as literature, philosophy,
history, and the arts. Print is no longer the principal and preferred medium of
study in the humanities. Computers have changed the way knowledge is
acquired and disseminated including fields such as the humanities which have
traditionally relied on print culture.
Humanities
Digital Tools
Control Freedom
Digital
Humanities

5. About CLic Corpora
● The CLiC(Corpus Linguistics in Context) web app has been developed as part of
the CLiC Dickens project, which demonstrates through corpus stylistics how
computer-assisted methods can be used to study literary texts and lead to new
insights into how readers perceive fictional characters.
● They provide The CLiC – Activity Book
● It provides examples of activities that teachers can adapt to or incorporate into
their classes.

7. Social protest writing: Hard Times
The character of Mrs Sparsit, in Dickens’s Hard Times, represents a fall in
social class from the aristocracy after the failure of her marriage. She tries to
maintain her former haughty demeanour, and comes across as dishonest and
manipulative. We can easily explore some aspects of her characterisation by
looking for her name and the narratorial descriptions that appear between
chunks of her direct speech (‘suspensions’). (https://clic.bham.ac.uk/)

8. Go to the site. At the right corner this
menu will appear.
For this activity, we should go with
Concordance

9. It will open like
this

10. Output of searching

11. This ‘In bk’ column,
black line is showing
where is your searching
While putting the cursor,
banner is appear and dit
diplaing that by clicking
here you will reach this
exact position

12. The
Result

13. Use of other options

14. ● The concordance in Figure 30 contains all the occurrences of Mrs
Sparsit which you should retrieve when limiting the search to
long suspensions. Notice how nearly all of the suspensions are
interruptions of Mrs Sparsit’s own speech, as can be seen from
the speech verbs (said Mrs. Sparsit, pursued Mrs. Sparsit, Mrs.
Sparsit interposed).
● Another point that students may pick up is that the suspensions
contain descriptions of Mrs. Sparsit’s body language and
manner such as with a shake of her head, in a very impressive
manner and in a highly superior manner.

15. Works Cited
Free online word cloud generator and tag cloud creator,
https://www.wordclouds.com/. Accessed 6 October 2022.
Inside Southern, https://libguides.southernct.edu/digitalhumanities. Accessed 06
Oct 2022.
Mahlberg, M., et al. CLiC 2.1 Corpus Linguistics in Context, 2020, clic.bham.ac.uk.
Accessed 06 Oct 2022.
Mahlberg,, Michaela, et al. CLiC – Corpus Linguistics in Context An Activity Book. 2017.
Accessed 06 Oct 2022.