Technology and Stylistics: The Web Connection
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There are at least four potential problems in high-tech stylistics pedagogy and research: 1) high costs of purchasing individual programs or site licences; 2) front-end overloading of the technological learning curve; 3) inflexibility in the analytic tool; 4) a focus on technology for the sake of technology. The motivation, structure, and use of the author’s text-analysis program — TEXT ANT — will serve as illustrations of solutions to these potential problems. The ‘front-end’ of TEXTANT is designed with the beginning student in mind, and the ‘back-end’ may be relatively easily modified by the designer in response to particular needs of users. TEXTANT is written in Perl and runs on a password-protected website.