(Universidad de Murcia. Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Jiménez-Pazos, Bárbara
Taking into account the disputed question about enchantment or disenchantment of the world caused by modern science, this paper comparatively examines the semantics of the lexicon of Charles Darwin’s Journal of Researches and The Origin of Species using computational text-mining strategies. The aim is to show that there is a direct semantic path, starting with the Journal and culminating in the Origin, which confirms a tendency towards a disenchanted type of language used by Darwin in his descriptions of nature. This is demonstrated by the lexical and semantic analysis of both texts.