Supplemental data for: Conceptual Forays: A Corpus-based Study of “Theory”

The status of theory in the Digital Humanities (DH) has been the subject of much debate. As a result, we find different theory narratives competing and entangled with each other. If at all, these narratives can only be grasped and examined from a somewhat detached perspective. Here, we attempt to investigate these elusive narratives by means of a conceptual history approach. In doing so, we define different theory dimensions, ranging from specific cultural and literary theory frameworks to more generic uses of the concept of theory. We examine the use and semantic changes of these theory notions in a large corpus of DH journals. Using a mixture of heuristic methods and approaches from the field of distributional semantics, we aim to create tellable conceptual stories of DH theory. If you want to use the data feel free to contact us! This DataVerse contains the supplemental material referenced in the paper. The related article was published in the Journal of Cultural Analytics (JoCA), ISSN 2371-4549, within the call Theorytellings: Epistemic Narratives in the Digital Humanities数字人文（Digital Humanities, DH）领域内的理论定位问题，长期以来都是学界广泛争论的核心议题。正因如此，学界存在多种相互竞争且彼此交织的理论叙事。即便真的能够被把握与审视，也仅能通过某种相对抽离的视角方可实现。本研究尝试借助概念史研究方法，对这些难以捉摸的理论叙事展开系统性探究。在此过程中，我们界定了多维度的理论范畴，覆盖从特定文化与文学理论框架，到“理论”概念泛化应用的各类场景。我们将在海量数字人文期刊语料库中，分析这些理论概念的使用语境与语义变迁历程。本研究结合启发式方法与分布语义学领域的研究路径，旨在构建可被清晰阐释的数字人文理论概念叙事。若您希望使用本数据集，欢迎随时与我们联系！本DataVerse平台收录了论文所引用的全部补充材料。相关论文发表于《文化分析期刊》（Journal of Cultural Analytics, JoCA，ISSN 2371-4549），刊载于专题栏目“Theorytellings：数字人文中的认知叙事”之下。