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Eugenio Pacelli, the later Pope Pius XII, was already considered a leading diplomat of the Holy See when he served as nuncio in Germany. Using the critical online edition of his nuncial reports, digital humanities methodologies will be used to explore which topics dominated his reports, the diplomatic style of his nunciature and whether Pacelli adapted the form and content of his reports to the various recipients. To this end, quantitative methods of textual analysis such as the frequency distribution of types in relation to tokens as well as recourse to key terms and multi-word units (N-grams) will be employed. Moreover, methods from the field of corpus linguistics, information retrieval (TF-IDF) and quantitative stylometry (contrastive analyses with Burrows' Delta and Zeta) are applied to evaluate both stylistic and content-related issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

CorDon (https://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/cordon/menu/lt/startas.html) yra laisvai prieinamas leksiškai ir morfosintaksiškai anotuotas lietuvių literatūros klasiko Kristijono Donelaičio (1714–1780) lietuviškų tekstų korpusas. Anotuoti tekstai pateikiami paslankaus formato skaityklėje, kurioje galima aktyvuoti atskirus anotacijos sluoksnius, paralelius teksto leidimus ir vertimus į vokiečių, anglų ir italų kalbas. Paieškos grafinė naudotojo sąsaja įgalina paiešką visuose anotacijų sluoksniuose nenaudojant specialios užklausų kalbos ar reguliariųjų išraiškų. Šis paieškos metodas yra nepriklausomas nuo anotacijos schemos ir gali būti apibendrintas panašiu būdu anotuotiems tekstams. Anotacijos pagrindu sugeneruotame leksikone su konkordancija pagal antraštinį žodį (lemą) suregistruoti Donelaičio tekstų žodžiai. Intuityvi CorDon paieška sukonstruota taip, kad užklausą būtų galima palaipsniui tikslinti ir plėsti. Paieškos rezultatai pateikiami plačiam vartotojų ratui prieinama forma. CorDon gali pasitarnauti kaip skaitmeninis leidinys Donelaičio tekstų tyrėjoms bei tyrėjams, kaip anotuotas korpuso archyvas kalbininkėms bei kalbininkams arba kaip skaitymo korpusas mokymo(si) procese. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Construction Grammar, as a relatively new direction in linguistics, claims to take account of all linguistic phenomena as far as possible. The linguistic phenomenon dealt with in this article belongs to so-called ´´multi-word units`` and as such is primarily the object of phraseological research. In this article the author tries to treat such units using the example of the multi-word unit ´´wie auch immer´´ outside of phraseology and namely in the area of Construction Grammar. In order to be able to identify the units treated in the text of the article as constructions in the sense of the Construction Grammar, one has to check to what extent these units correspond to the characteristics of a construction. As is known, the constructions are prototypical form-meaning-pairs the correspond to the principles of noncompositionality and conventionality. In this article the author shows how the phraseological units can be evaluated from the perspective of the Constructions Grammar. A lot of space is given to determine the constructional grammatical meaning, which contains not only the semantic but also the functional-pragmatic aspects. To this end the author makes an empirical observation of how the above-mentioned unit behaves in different contexts, which syntactic functions it can assume, and how the syntactic functions correlate with the semantic aspects. Such an empirical description enables the so- called corpus linguistic analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two developments in computational text analysis may change the way qualitative data analysis in social sciences is performed: 1. the availability of digital text worth to investigate is growing rapidly, and 2. the improvement of algorithmic information extraction approaches, also called text mining, allows for further bridging the gap between qualitative and quantitative text analysis. The key factor hereby is the inclusion of context into computational linguistic models which extends conventional computational content analysis towards the extraction of meaning. To clarify methodological differences of various computer-assisted text analysis approaches the article suggests a typology from the perspective of a qualitative researcher. This typology shows compatibilities between manual qualitative data analysis methods and computational, rather quantitative approaches for large scale mixed method text analysis designs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Study 1, a dictionary analysis of English, German, Swedish, Russian and Finnish VP idioms, shows that there is a general trend for these idioms to pick their nouns from among the most frequent body-part nouns. Thus, the same overall cognitive domains tend to be favored in the lexical resources for idiomatic and non-idiomatic language. In Study 2 we used corpora to test the degree of literal versus non-literal use, in terms of textual frequency, of the three most idiom-prone nouns in the five languages, viz., 'hand', 'head' and 'eye'. Moreover, as text genres are expected to differ in their use of literal versus non-literal senses of words, two text types were pitted against each other, viz., fiction and newspaper language, entertaining the hypothesis that fiction would be more non-literal than newspaper texts. The reverse turned out to be the case. We explain the higher degree of non-literal (mostly metaphorical) use of 'hand', 'head' and 'eye' with the notion that in fiction the authors describe a world constructed in situ, while newspaper writers interpret the world already shared by them and their readers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]