Hermeneuti.ca – The Rhetoric of Text Analysis

Hermeneuti.ca is a collaborative project by Stéfan Sinclair & Geoffrey Rockwell to think through some foundations of contemporary text analysis, including issues related to the electronic texts used, the tools and methodologies available, and the various forms that can take the expression of results from text analysis.

This site is composed of three parts, all of which are works in progress:

• The Rhetoric of Text Analysis: a book about doing text analysis and expressing results, which currently includes:
  • Introduction: Thinking Through Text Technology
  • Now Analyze That: Comparing the Discourse on Race (an example essay using text analysis)
  • There’s a Toy in my Essay! Problems with the Rhetoric of Text Analysis
• Voyeur Tools: See Through Your Texts: a book with more technical details about developing tools in service of the types of text analysis that we envision
  • Introducing Text Analysis & Voyeur
  • Documentation for Users
    
  • Recipes (suggested instructions for completing text analysis tasks)
• A Blog about this project, including updates on work that we are currently doing