Conversational networks: prophets and kings in the Old Testament.
This article analyzes discourse in the Old Testament in terms of the frequency of direct speech between the main characters. We visualize the speakers, the hearers, and the amount of conversation between them in graphs known as conversational networks. We investigate whether these networks can help...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 40; pp. 1043 - 1064 |
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