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Scholarly Communication
Past, present and future of knowledge inscription
Series Editors: Adriaan van der Weel, Leiden University, The Netherlands, Ernst Thoutenhoofd, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and Ray Siemens, University of Victoria, Canada For more information please visit brill.nl/sc ISSN 1879-9027

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Marco Beretta, University of Bologna, Italy Amy Friedlander, Washington, DC, USA Steve Fuller, University of Warwick, UK Chuck Henry, Council on Library and Information Resources, USA Willard McCarty, Kings College London, UK / University of Western Sydney, Australia Mariya Mitova, Leiden, The Netherlands Patrik Svensson, Ume University, Sweden Melissa Terras, University College London, UK John Willinsky, Stanford University, USA Paul Wouters, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences, The Netherlands
Brills Scholarly Communication is an academic series that publishes imaginative and thought-provoking accounts of scholarly reading and writing practices from any disciplinary perspective, with special emphasis on past and present change in academic writing technologies and literacy.

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Aims and Scope

Brills Scholarly Communication offers a new venue for original studies into the mutual shaping of reading, writing and scholarship in the past, present and future. It also welcomes manuscripts that interrogate this mutual shaping with respect to science. The series aims to bring together insights into the literate nature of scholarship and scholarly activity from across the entire spectrum of social sciences and humanities disciplines, emphasizing work aimed at understanding change in reading, writing and scholarship. The focus in this series is less on disciplinary specificities than it is on topical and imaginative contributions to scholarly literacy in the widest sense.

Readership

All those with an interest in reading and writing as scholarly work, and in academic text and publications as products and resources of scholarship. It also targets researchers studying the past, present and future of scholarship and scientific research.

Text Comparison and Digital Creativity

The Production of Presence and Meaning in Digital Text Scholarship
Editors: Wido van Peursen, and Adriaan van der Weel

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Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd

October 2010 ISBN 978 90 04 18865 5 Hardback (xviii, 296 pp.) List price EUR 119.- / US$ 169. Scholarly Communication/1 In fourteen thoughtful essays this book reports and reflects on the many changes that a digital workflow brings to the world of original texts and textual scholarship, and the effect on scholarly communication practices. The spread of digital technology across philology, linguistics and literary studies suggests that text scholarship is taking on a more laboratory-like image. The ability to sort, quantify, reproduce and report text through computation would seem to facilitate the exploration of text as another type of quantitative scientific data. However, developing this potential also highlights text analysis and text interpretation as two increasingly separated subtasks in the study of texts. The implied dual nature of interpretation as the traditional, valued mode of scholarly text comparison, combined with an increasingly widespread reliance on digital text analysis as scientific mode of inquiry raises the question as to whether the reflexive concepts that are central to interpretation individualism, subjectivity are affected by the anonymised, normative assumptions implied by formal categorisations of text as digital data.

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professor of Old Testament at Leiden University. His publications include <i>The Verbal System in the Hebrew Text of Ben Sira</i> (Brill, 2004) and Language and Interpretation in the Syriac Text of Ben Sira (Brill, 2007). Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd, Ph.D. (1996) in Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham (UK), is lecturer in clinical education at Groningen University. He has published in various social science disciplines on the construction of knowledge, and is an editor of the Brill book series on Scholarly Communication. Adriaan van der Weel, Ph.D. (1998) in textual studies and English literature, Leiden University, holds the Bohn chair of modern Dutch book history in the Department of Book and Digital Media Studies at Leiden University. He is an editor of Digital Humanities Quarterly, and the Brill book series on Scholarly Communication.

Willem Th. van Peursen, Ph.D. (1999) in Semitic Languages, Leiden University, is associate

Call for Proposals and Manuscripts

Series Editor: Adriaan van der Weel Book & Digital Media Studies Leiden University P.O. Box 9500 2300 RA Leiden The Netherlands a.h.van.der.weel@hum.leidenuniv.nl
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For enquiries or to submit a manuscript proposal, please contact: Editor Language & Linguistics: Wendy Shamier BRILL P.O. Box 9000 2300 PA Leiden The Netherlands shamier@brill.nl