Abstract
Digital technology has created a significant impact on traditional humanities studies, and the term “Digital Humanities” was coined to reflect this new trend. This lecture will discuss, by means of a Cantonese digital archive developed at the Educational University of Hong Kong, how Cantonese studies can be undertaken with the digital humanities approach. The data of the one-million-character archive was obtained by transcribing the dialogues of 80 Cantonese movies produced in Hong Kong in the mid-20th century. The archive not only documents, preserves, and revitalizes Cantonese, but also allows us to explore on-going linguistic changes in Cantonese and also tells us about the Hong Kong society of half a century ago. Copyright © 2022 Sinofon.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - Nov 2022 |
| Event | The Final Sinophone Conference: What is Hua? Conceptualization, Methodology and Research on Sinophone Borderlands and Interactions at the Edges - Clarion Congress Hotel, Olomouc, Czech Republic Duration: 02 Nov 2022 → 04 Nov 2022 https://sinofon.cz/workshops-conferences/final-sinophone-conference/ |
Conference
| Conference | The Final Sinophone Conference: What is Hua? Conceptualization, Methodology and Research on Sinophone Borderlands and Interactions at the Edges |
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| Country/Territory | Czech Republic |
| City | Olomouc |
| Period | 02/11/22 → 04/11/22 |
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