Reflowing Text
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 4:59PM Having demonstrated Inductive Analysis on an individual verse, I proceeded to analyse each individual verse according to that pattern. But independent analysis of each verse gives little sense of the function that stretch of language within the text.
To get a sense of how the verses relate to one another, I turned to Tinderbox's Map View to reflow the text.
The first step is to locate the first verse to expand the box so that I can see the text. Then to get the next verse, expand its box, and lay arrange it in relationship to the first. I proceeded by interleaving the Inductive analysis with arranging the text.
Note expansion in Tinderbox's Map View to see the text content.In arranging the text, I had no particular schema to follow. The relationships I expressed were intuitive, and as I pursued the study, I "invented" differentiations to recall to mind the meanings I had perceived.
In addition to this, when I perceived that a particular stretch of text consisted of a theme (or, more formally, one generic element of structure), I added an adornment with a title to signal what I saw as the dominant function or meaning within the text. This is the result of arranging 1 John 1:1-5.
Notice in the the below example I placed 1 John 1:2 to the right of the main flow of the text. By this positioning, I indicated my understanding that 1 John 1:2 is an excursus.
First John 1:1-5. Arranged according to intuitive visual relationship with the analyst's interpretation of the dominant theme labeling the adornment.In examining this flow of text, the following illustrations hint at some functionality that I wish were available in Tinderbox. I've used an external drawing program to indicate chains of lexical relations.
First John 1:1-5. Demonstrating desired functionality to support lexical analyses.In formal terms, I am demonstrating an example of cohesion analysis. More than simply highlighting words, what I'm wanting to do is to mark semantic relations between chains of words, so that I could use Tinderbox's querying mechanism in order to retrieve the cohesive chains. Right now in Tinderbox, I can only choose to create named semantic relations between notes; or if I used text links, to have an unnamed relation, and then, to be able to make only one link, not several, as so often happens in analysis.
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