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;

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Submitted by sondheim on Sat, 02/26/2011 - 00:00

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