new criticism focuses on rigorous analysis of poetry and literature, irrespective of peripheral issues. its fundamental tenet is the autonomy of literary texts. therefore, new criticism shuns dealing with such peripheral issues as authors’ biography, social, political and historical events; since this approach considers all these issues as non-artistic. in principle, the followers of new critic...

The present study has been designed to investigate the exclusive and inclusive uses of deixis ‘ma’ in artistic and scientific texts. It intends to indicate the communicative role of this pronoun, i.e., the way in which it is applied by authors to communicate with their readers. The analysis is based on qualitative and quantitative perspectives by using a Persian monolingual corpus. In the prese...

Political text scaling aims to linearly order parties and politicians across political dimensions (e.g., left-to-right ideology) based on textual content (e.g., politician speeches or party manifestos). Existing models scale texts based on relative word usage and cannot be used for cross-lingual analyses. Additionally, there is little quantitative evidence that the output of these models correl...

Scholars wanting to estimate substantive quantities of interest, for example policy positions, from political texts typically apply a coding scheme to discrete text units such as words or sentences. Scales of policy positions, for example a left-right scale of economic policy, are typically built from the relative frequencies of text units coded into different categories. In this paper we reexa...