Abstract
In this article we propose a stylistic analysis of Solomon Marcus’ non-scientific published texts, gathered in six volumes, aiming to uncover some of his quantitative and qualitative fingerprints. Moreover, we compare and cluster two distinct periods of time in his writing style: 22 years of communist regime (1967-1989) and 27 years of democracy (1990-2016). The distributional analysis of Marcus’ text reveals that the passing from the communist regime period to democracy is sharply marked by two complementary changes in Marcus’ writing: in the pre-democracy period, the communist norms of writing style demanded on the one hand long phrases, long words and clichés, and on the other hand, a short list of preferred “official” topics; in democracy tendency was towards shorten phrases and words while approaching a broader area of topics.- Anthology ID:
- R17-1028
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017
- Month:
- September
- Year:
- 2017
- Address:
- Varna, Bulgaria
- Editors:
- Ruslan Mitkov, Galia Angelova
- Venue:
- RANLP
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- INCOMA Ltd.
- Note:
- Pages:
- 201–207
- Language:
- URL:
- https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_028
- DOI:
- 10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_028
- Cite (ACL):
- Anca Dinu, Liviu P. Dinu, and Bogdan Dumitru. 2017. On the stylistic evolution from communism to democracy: Solomon Marcus study case. In Proceedings of the International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP 2017, pages 201–207, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
- Cite (Informal):
- On the stylistic evolution from communism to democracy: Solomon Marcus study case (Dinu et al., RANLP 2017)
- PDF:
- https://doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_028