In the previous post, where I put online, in PDF format and in Word format, an article by John A. Barnes that soon we will translate whole, I indicated that a prior reading of the article, by next Friday, could have as an objective to identify the terms which recur frequently and/or which are central notions or concepts important, and to begin a collective discussion around the possible translations of these terms. The ideal would be to achieve the establishment of a small dictionary English-French translations of important terms, such that they have a consensus between us in the course of the coming days.
To move things forward, I’ve spent today article Barnes to the close scrutiny of a very simple tool of textual analysis. There are several that can be used directly online, such as Textalyser. After a bit of cleaning, I made a list of 77 words and phrases of several words, which all have at least 4 instances in the article, and may require a collective agreement around their translation, because these words are important and/or because their translation can be problematic.
Here is that list, ranked in descending order by the number of occurrences. I put it online here for illustrative purposes, and I then opened very soon in a document editable online… But in the meantime you can already start to think about :
| Word or expression | Occurrences |
| society/societies | 64 |
| bremnes | 57 |
| class/classes | 53 |
| parish | 47 |
| system/systems | 40 |
| network | 34 |
| man/men | 32 |
| people | 31 |
| group/groups | 29 |
| person/persons | 21 |
| status | 21 |
| rural | 20 |
| local | 19 |
| ties | 19 |
| different | 18 |
| field | 18 |
| population | 17 |
| friends | 16 |
| committee/committees | 15 |
| land | 15 |
| members of | 15 |
| peasants/peasantry | 14 |
| time | 14 |
| differences | 13 |
| vessel/vessels | 13 |
| life | 12 |
| organization | 12 |
| town/towns | 12 |
| economic | 11 |
| government | 11 |
| process | 11 |
| associations | 10 |
| community | 10 |
| political | 10 |
| kinship | 9 |
| relations | 9 |
| activities | 8 |
| children | 8 |
| friendship | 8 |
| membership | 8 |
| scale | 8 |
| areas | 7 |
| bureaucrats | 7 |
| country | 7 |
| culture | 7 |
| development | 7 |
| formal | 7 |
| individual | 7 |
| kinsmen | 7 |
| living | 7 |
| pattern | 7 |
| purposes | 7 |
| state | 7 |
| parish council | 7 |
| affairs | 6 |
| board | 6 |
| factory | 6 |
| independence | 6 |
| neighbours | 6 |
| structure | 6 |
| work | 6 |
| education | 5 |
| leadership | 5 |
| territorial | 5 |
| class network | 5 |
| achievement | 4 |
| acquaintance | 4 |
| arrangement | 4 |
| boundaries | 4 |
| burghers | 4 |
| groupings | 4 |
| income | 4 |
| knowledge | 4 |
| money | 4 |
| recognition | 4 |
| social network | 4 |
| wealthier | 4 |