On the stylistic evolution from communism to democracy: Solomon Marcus study case
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In this article we propose a stylistic analysis of Solomon Marcus’ publicistics, 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, the tendency was towards shorter phrases and words, while approaching a broader area of topics.
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