This is my midterm project:
https://midterm.may.sites.carleton.edu/midterm/word-analysis/.
This project uses Voyant Tools to analyze Legge’s translation of The Analects of Confucius, revealing how the trend, link, and appearing frequency of words reflect the main idea of this book.
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This is really cool! The insight about “virtue” and how Legge’s translation might reshape the original Chinese concept is actually really smart. That’s exactly the kind of thing these tools can help us notice.
Your findings about the master-said-chap pattern totally make sense for showing how the dialogue structure works. And the virtue-superior-man connection is a solid way to track Confucian ideas through the text.
I really enjoy reading it!