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The present study was based on empirical data collected during the first phase (2016) of Study 1000, part of the 13-November Program: a corpus of 934 individual interviews conducted 6-11 months after the events. To process this empirical material, the authors used integrated TXM software, which provides several classic textometry tools. They mainly used the lexical specificity analysis tool, which statistically measures the irregularity of the word distribution according to the parts of the corpus. They also analyzed the concordances of certain very specific lexical forms. Analysis revealed the important influence of social roles on the construction of memories and narratives of this event. Application of textometry tools highlighted lexical fields specific to the different social roles played by the interviewees in this social drama, and showed that it was through these specific vocabularies that they remembered and recounted this extraordinary story. Social roles therefore influence the formation of memories both individual and collective, by modulating the way in which individuals select what to remember and what to forget. The article opens up several interesting avenues for future analyses, mainly a longitudinal perspective (including phases 2 and 3 of Study 1000) for the study of flashbulb memories and the gender issue to fine-tune the analysis of social roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study was based on empirical data collected during the first phase (2016) of Study 1000, part of the 13-November Program: a corpus of 934 individual interviews conducted 6-11 months after the events. To process this empirical material, the authors used integrated TXM software, which provides several classic textometry tools. They mainly used the lexical specificity analysis tool, which statistically measures the irregularity of the word distribution according to the parts of the corpus. They also analyzed the concordances of certain very specific lexical forms. Analysis revealed the important influence of social roles on the construction of memories and narratives of this event. Application of textometry tools highlighted lexical fields specific to the different social roles played by the interviewees in this social drama, and showed that it was through these specific vocabularies that they remembered and recounted this extraordinary story. Social roles therefore influence the formation of memories both individual and collective, by modulating the way in which individuals select what to remember and what to forget. The article opens up several interesting avenues for future analyses, mainly a longitudinal perspective (including phases 2 and 3 of Study 1000) for the study of flashbulb memories and the gender issue to fine-tune the analysis of social roles.

Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) has significantly reshaped our understanding of second language learning and teaching across the micro, meso, and macro levels for several decades since its systematic introduction by Larsen-Freeman and Cameron (2008). This study conducts a comprehensive review of empirical research on second language learning and teaching within the framework of CDST from 2008 to 2022. Textometric analysis, a computer-supported qualitative method for textual analysis, was employed to conduct the review by using the IRAMUTEQ software. A total of 198 publications were identified, leading to the emergence of three prominent research themes: research on the language system, research on the second language learner and learning, and research on the second language teacher and teaching. The chronological trends and distinguishing features of the three research themes were discussed against a mainstream model of language learning and teaching at the micro, meso, and macro levels (The Douglas Fir Group, 2016). The findings of this review hold the potential for enlightening future research endeavors in this field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Antoine Brea’s L’Enfer mis en vulgaire parlure (the latest translation of Dante’s Inferno, published in 2021) illustrates a semantic duplicity of the term error which, etymologically, means both to err and to wander. Brea’s Enfer wanders, in the sense that it programmatically distances itself from the translators who preceded it (a retranslation is always a correction and, as such, it presupposes the error of the previous translations). But this “traduction à la diable” also errs in the literal sense of the term, since it deviates from an established linguistic norm. Brea’s reaction to the purist or puritanical translations of his predecessors produces in fact a degradation of language into « parlure » and of vulgaris (the illustrious vernacular theorized by Dante) into vulgar. But is this erring really an error? To answer this question, this essay will focus the violation of a translational taboo and, in particular, the presence of scatological vocabulary in Brea’s Inferno. A qualitative analysis will be supported by the tools offered by textometry and by an automatic survey of the lexicon of a corpus, “Les Divines”, comprising 40 French translations of Dante’s Inferno (totaling 1,474,726 words) published from 1800 to 2021

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The aim of this paper is to discuss the reconceptualisation of violence against women in the United-Nations discourse on violence against women between 1996 and 2019. The paper relies on a corpus-based approach to discourse analysis and argues that the term "violence against women and girls" became the United-Nations' preferred term to discuss the issue of violence against women in their press releases because of a shift in the feminist theorisation of the concept of "violence against women" and the influence of the geopolitical context of the 2000's and beginning of the 2010's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on the use of vague discourse in planning. Early contributions identified vagueness as a 'problem' to be solved so as to avoid potential misunderstandings and conflicts. This paper adopts the complementary point of view whereby vagueness can also be a 'resource', that is, a strategy used by actors in adverse circumstances. A systematic analysis of the texts and illustrations of 36 urban transport plans shows that vagueness is an essential ingredient. It is used mainly as a way to hedge against unwanted public commitments in the context of major uncertainties and tension between actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Lexical system is an essential component of any natural language. Frequency word lists are a convenient representation of words functional activity in language as a whole or in some particular text. The parameters and properties of frequency word lists are in the center of attention of NLP experts, since they are used in numerous practical applications related to attribution of authorship, text automatic clustering and classification. The article explores frequency word lists of Russian fiction in the period of 1900-1930, which was marked by a series of dramatic historical events and presents unique statistical data on the most frequent words, parts of speech and keywords, and their dynamics. Special attention is paid to the issues of statistical consistency of frequency word list parameters, which becomes especially relevant when studying big text data. The study was carried out on the basis of fiction texts, which by the variety of topics, lexical and stylistic diversity reflects the variability of linguistic forms better than the other written text genres. In terms of the text corpus size and character, the research of this kind is being carried out for the first time.

The market for fake documents on the internet is a topic that has not yet been explored in depth, despite its importance in facilitating many crimes. This research explored the market of fake documents on the White House Market anonymous market with a computational linguistic methodology; more specifically using textometry. The textual corpus is composed of the data of the ads titles as well as the profiles of the sellers, which were analysed as traces of their online activities. We investigated how these remnants can help to answer general questions. What kinds of fake documents are sold? Can we distinguish types of sellers based on their selling activities or profiles? Can we link distinct vendors based on language trace similarities? The free software IRaMuTeQ was used to carry out the analysis. The results showed that the textometric methods have real potential in classification, highlighting the different products on the market, and grouping the sellers according to their offers.

A flashbulb memory is a highly detailed and vivid autobiographical memory for the circumstances in which one first learned of a surprising, consequential and emotionally arousing event. How retelling of different features of a flashbulb memory changes over time is not totally understood. Moreover, little is known about how the emotional feeling experienced by individuals when they learned about the event modulates these changes. In this study, we explored changes over time in American individuals' retelling of their flashbulb memories of the terrorist attack of 11 September 2001. We conducted textual analysis of 824 testimonies collected from the same 206 individuals 1 week, 11, 25 and again 119 months after the attack. Results showed individuals were more likely to report temporal and emotional details in their retelling early after the event and spatial details in their long-term retelling. In addition, the intensity of emotions felt upon hearing the news about the attack influenced how individuals reported their flashbulb memories over time. Overall, this study provides further support for theories suggesting different rates of forgetting for different canonical features of emotional arousal events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Didier Raoult has acquired media authority in the debates on the treatment of COVID-19 in France thanks to his professional competence, raising issues of legitimacy and authority. He presents himself as a “star of infectious diseases”, belonging to the “elite”. In the press and online comments, the scientificity of the subject is mixed with considerations that may seem trivial. This paper will analyze the way in which scientificity is expressed in the media coverage of the scientist but also the way in which online communities discuss, argue, and become involved in polemics and controversies concerning him. It will analyze the links and shifts between scientific and parascientific communication. It will, therefore, deal with both the discourse and the staging around the scientist Didier Raoult and the circulation of his words and positions through online media and citizen communities.

This paper addresses the relation between reference chains and structural units, in the three first chapters of the Essais sur la peinture by Diderot. This corpus is taken from the DEMOCRAT project, during which it has been prepared and annotated. In a first part, a close analysis addresses the distribution of referents and chains across the three chapters and five comparable paragraphs, in order to observe the variability in lengths, coverage and density. A second part focuses on reference chains with respect to units theme (chapter titles, paragraph themes). Multilevel quantitative analyses have been operated with help of the URS extension of TXM. It appears that reference chains do affect textual continuity and discontinuity. More precisely, chapter themes are rather marked by long and continuous chains whereas paragraph ones are rather marked by short and discontinuous chains (new, local and specific to that unit).

This article supplements the array of methods in urban policy discourse analysis by applying textometry to a corpus of planning documents. Textometry is a systematic computer-assisted analysis of textual data. When applied to large corpora, the method can reveal contrasts that cannot readily be detected by non-instrumented human reading. It seems promising therefore to use textometry to analyse urban planning documents which, in France as in other countries, are known for being at first sight pretty indistinguishable from each other. By analysing dozens of documents at a time, this method increases the scale of analysis, enabling us to identify massive transitions in discourse over time or major contrasts among discourses emanating from specific groups of actors. When combined with classical methods (i.e. interviews, qualitative archival research), textometry seems to be effective at identifying new ways of understanding urban policy discourses. To exemplify the potential of such a method, the analysis developed here draws on a corpus of 36 French urban transport plans (plans de déplacements urbains) for the period 2000–2015. Our results display marked contrasts in discourses, mainly as a result of changes over time. Paradoxically, for most cities between 2000 and 2010, the discourses become increasingly abstract in their content while highlighting a proactive attitude and providing specific information on the document implementation process and a precise list of institutional partners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Drawing from the most recent developments in the field of Digital Humanities, the article showcases some of the most promising methods as well as some of the most useful tools for computational textual analysis. Textometry, stylometry and network analysis (alongside topic modelling or distributional semantics) are nowadays methods that, through the recent developments in digital formalism proposed by Matthew L. Jockers or the researchers from Stanford Literary Lab, are able to reveal literary and cultural patterns at a macroanalytical method. The article will delve into computational stylistics by testing the Stylo package, developed by Maciej Eder, Jan Rybicki and Mike Kestemont, on a sample corpus provided by the ASTRA Data Mining Project, attempting to explore the merits of such methods in the field of Romanian literary studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article examines the discursive construction of emerging Euroregions in Europe. By analyzing the discourse produced by institutions, economic actors and media, we reconstruct the definition of the Euroregional project from various enunciative positions and irrespective of the languages or the geographical location of Euroregions. On one hand, the results show characteristic metaphors of the European political discourse (construction, experimentation, body) that introduce the imagination of a territorial continuum in Europe. On the other hand, the results show some gray areas (divisions, approximations, dispersions, competition) that make the definition of the Euroregional project blurred and difficult to understand for the European citizen. The analysis is based on a genuine multilingual corpus to detect regularities relative to the Euroregional discourse. It mobilizes simple but verifiable textometric results that serve as benchmarks for qualitative analysis.

In this article, I put forward a linguistic analysis model for analyzing meaning which is based on a methodology that falls within the wider framework of the digital humanities and is equipped with digital tools that meet the theoretical requirements stated. First, I propose a conception of the digital humanities which favors a close relationship between digital technology and the humanities. This general framework will justify the use of a number of models embodied in a dynamic conception of language. This dynamism will then be reflected in the choice of metrics and textual analysis tools (developed in the field of textometry, especially the Iramuteq software). The semantic functioning of linguistic units will be described by using these tools within the identified methodological framework and will help to better understand the processes of variations, whether temporal or generic, within vast discursive corpora. I propose a way of analyzing corpora with specific tools, confronting the humanities with computing/numerical technology.

In this article we discuss the contribution of the Textual Semantics theory in education and in Second Language Acquisition. The aim is to apprehend textual praxeology challenges that involve a break with the utilitarian vision of language. After describing our theoretical framework, we propose to study the notion of “competences”, which is at the heart of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages’ recommendations; a notion that compromises the critical approach of the individual through a closed categorization of language skills to be acquired. We will illustrate our theoretical point of view through an experimentation for the integration a critical approach of texts in language learning class.

This study of social representations about interpreted medical consultations examines the discourse of French language focus groups (FGs), conducted in Quebec, with 22 third year medical students (4 FGs), 29 family medicine residents (4 FGs) and 47 experienced family physicians (5 FGs). The audio-recorded FGs were transcribed. Each discussed two video vignettes of interpreted consultations. Statistical textual analysis showed that the students' discourse patterns differed by FG. Residents prioritized access to the patient's culture via the interpreter, though recognizing the need to respect the patient-physician relationship. Senior physicians organized their discourse differently for each vignette, associating it with a 'standard' response: for them, the two main issues were the quest for information, which we relate to the medical socialization process; and the interpreter's stances, in terms of how s/he is perceived by physicians and the role(s) s/he is seen to play in the consultation. Physicians tend to represent the interpreter as a controllable 'object', not a full-fledged healthcare professional. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Programme 13-Novembre aims to analyze the individual and collective memory of the terrorist attacks of November 13, 2015. At its heart is the Étude 1000, which is to gather the same 1000 people in audiovisual interviews four times in 10 years. Having the transcripts at our disposal, we choose here to show the importance of discourse analysis by recalling its theoretical foundations, to present one of the tools allowing this statistical analysis, the Correspondence Factor Analysis, and to use it to analyze the sub-corpus of interviews conducted at a distance from the Paris events, with 76 inhabitants of the Metz region. Crossing these volunteers with the words they use, we see that two variables clearly stand out that oppose the vocabularies, the gender variable and the age variable., (© Société de Biologie, 2023.)