Arguing with Corpora

There is hardly any research in digital and computational humanities that does not use a corpus of some sort. Indeed, the centrality of corpora seems one of the most obvious differences between “traditional” and computational humanities. Despite this centrality of corpora, there is surprisingly little theoretical discussion of corpora and their epistemological impact. Our work aims to address this gap by investigating how corpora are being used to craft arguments—and to tell stories—in computational humanities research.