Seth Mehl
Biographic Data
| ID | 6233943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Mehl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Mehl |
| SIGNATURE | MEHL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3036-8132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Keywords
Decolonising has become central to contentious discourses connecting historical (in)equalities and (in)justice to the present day. Recent debates have revolved around proactive inclusion and forcible exclusion, and the concrete and abstract elements of decolonising, and it is these competing semantic elements, alongside recent rapid semantic change, that render decolonising a keyword. In this journal, decolonising the curriculum was described as …
Ecological Heritage and Relational Informal Learning for Youth Development in Southern Africa
This paper situates itself at the nexus of youth development and ecological heritage in Southern Africa, critically engaging with enduring challenges such as unemployment, poverty, and the gradual erosion of cultural identity. It examines the potential of Moringa oleifera as a key ecological resource for fostering sustainable livelihoods and reinforcing localised ecological and cultural heritage. Drawing on participatory methodologies including i…
White
‘Although all words have that destructive potential, some are more powerful than others, and white belongs to the category of “Keywords” ... Williams does not include the word white’. (Taylor 2005, 8) It is the ongoing malleability of white in reference to a category of human beings – and its propensity to be shiftingly employed for inclusion or exclusion, with deadly results – that renders it a keyword. White as a category of human beings has, o…
Discursive Quads
This paper introduces linguistic concept modelling, a new computational approach to humanities‐driven analysis of meaning in large text collections, and presents illustrative examples of the approach applied to over one billion words of printed Early Modern English contained in Early English Books Online (Text Creation Partnership edition). Linguistic concept modelling methods and innovations are described in detail, and justified as a unique, ne…
Introduction
This special issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society presents new computationally assisted research into linguistic meaning in historical English texts. The issue is based upon the talks given at a workshop of the International Conference for English Historical Linguistics (2018, University of Edinburgh). The workshop was conceived in the context of the Linguistic DNA research project (AH/M00614X/1), which required new thinking abou…
Volatile concepts
This paper demonstrates the value of studying co-occurrence ‘quads’ – constellations of four non-adjacent lemmas that consistently co-occur across spans of up to 100 tokens – for understanding discursive change. We map meaning onto quads as ‘discursive concepts’, which encompass encyclopaedic semantics, pragmatics, and context. We investigate a high-frequency quad with high co-occurrence strength in EEBO-TCP: world-heaven-earth-power . We conduct…
Why Linguists Should Care about Digital Humanities (and Epidemiology)
Make us difficult
This paper introduces a previously undiscussed English construction, termed the make us difficult construction. Examples of the construction are presented, from the International Corpus of English and the Corpus of Global Web-Based English , and a quantitative analysis is conducted of the construction’s text frequency and variant rates. Quantitative data on specific usage patterns is employed to inform an analysis of the construction and its prod…
Corpus onomasiology in world Englishes and the concrete verbs make and give
Traditional theoretical frameworks for world Englishes (WEs) such as Moag's (1982) and Kachru's (1985) have not explicitly noted a role for lexical semantics. Schneider's (2007) dynamic model, however, explicitly defines specific phases of WE development in terms of lexical semantics, and Brutt‐Griffler's (2002) model emphasizes semantic change. This paper fills a gap in the literature by presenting corpus studies into the concrete senses of the …
Volatile concepts
This paper demonstrates the value of studying co-occurrence ‘quads’ – constellations of four non-adjacent lemmas that consistently co-occur across spans of up to 100 tokens – for understanding discursive change. We map meaning onto quads as ‘discursive concepts’, which encompass encyclopaedic semantics, pragmatics, and context. We investigate a high-frequency quad with high co-occurrence strength in EEBO-TCP: world-heaven-earth-power . We conduct…
Corpus onomasiology in world Englishes and the concrete verbs make and give
Traditional theoretical frameworks for world Englishes (WEs) such as Moag's (1982) and Kachru's (1985) have not explicitly noted a role for lexical semantics. Schneider's (2007) dynamic model, however, explicitly defines specific phases of WE development in terms of lexical semantics, and Brutt‐Griffler's (2002) model emphasizes semantic change. This paper fills a gap in the literature by presenting corpus studies into the concrete senses of the …
Make us difficult
This paper introduces a previously undiscussed English construction, termed the make us difficult construction. Examples of the construction are presented, from the International Corpus of English and the Corpus of Global Web-Based English , and a quantitative analysis is conducted of the construction’s text frequency and variant rates. Quantitative data on specific usage patterns is employed to inform an analysis of the construction and its prod…
Why Linguists Should Care about Digital Humanities (and Epidemiology)
Discursive Quads
This paper introduces linguistic concept modelling, a new computational approach to humanities‐driven analysis of meaning in large text collections, and presents illustrative examples of the approach applied to over one billion words of printed Early Modern English contained in Early English Books Online (Text Creation Partnership edition). Linguistic concept modelling methods and innovations are described in detail, and justified as a unique, ne…
Introduction
This special issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society presents new computationally assisted research into linguistic meaning in historical English texts. The issue is based upon the talks given at a workshop of the International Conference for English Historical Linguistics (2018, University of Edinburgh). The workshop was conceived in the context of the Linguistic DNA research project (AH/M00614X/1), which required new thinking abou…
Volatile concepts
This paper demonstrates the value of studying co-occurrence ‘quads’ – constellations of four non-adjacent lemmas that consistently co-occur across spans of up to 100 tokens – for understanding discursive change. We map meaning onto quads as ‘discursive concepts’, which encompass encyclopaedic semantics, pragmatics, and context. We investigate a high-frequency quad with high co-occurrence strength in EEBO-TCP: world-heaven-earth-power . We conduct…
White
‘Although all words have that destructive potential, some are more powerful than others, and white belongs to the category of “Keywords” ... Williams does not include the word white’. (Taylor 2005, 8) It is the ongoing malleability of white in reference to a category of human beings – and its propensity to be shiftingly employed for inclusion or exclusion, with deadly results – that renders it a keyword. White as a category of human beings has, o…
Keywords
Decolonising has become central to contentious discourses connecting historical (in)equalities and (in)justice to the present day. Recent debates have revolved around proactive inclusion and forcible exclusion, and the concrete and abstract elements of decolonising, and it is these competing semantic elements, alongside recent rapid semantic change, that render decolonising a keyword. In this journal, decolonising the curriculum was described as …
Ecological Heritage and Relational Informal Learning for Youth Development in Southern Africa
This paper situates itself at the nexus of youth development and ecological heritage in Southern Africa, critically engaging with enduring challenges such as unemployment, poverty, and the gradual erosion of cultural identity. It examines the potential of Moringa oleifera as a key ecological resource for fostering sustainable livelihoods and reinforcing localised ecological and cultural heritage. Drawing on participatory methodologies including i…
Computer Science (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Corpus linguistics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works)