Extract Dialogue from a Screenplay to Explore Linear Discourse
Introduction
This recipe extracts and examines a character’s dialogue from a play to explore a particular discourse in a linear fashion.
Ingredients
- An electronic transcript of a play or a screenplay;
- A List Words tool such as Voyant Corpus Term Frequencies
- A Distribution tool such as Voyant Term Frequencies Chart
- A Text Extraction tool such as the TAPoR Extract Text
Steps
- Get an the electronic text of a play or screen play;
- Extract dialogue from text using TAPoR Extract Text;
- Consider the evolution or form of the discourse using Voyant Corpus Term Frequencies or the distribution of particular words using the Voyant Term Frequencies Chart;
Status
Submitted by sondheim on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 00:00