Machine learning techniques have become very popular for a number of text classification tasks, from spam filters to sentiment analysis to topic classification. In this paper, we will apply a number of machine learning techniques to classifying text by the political ideology of the speaker (i.e. Republican or Democrat). This is a potentially useful application of text classification, as when re...

In his most recent books, Piketty offers a global history of inequality in its economic, social, political, and intellectual dimensions, arguing that is moved by the struggle ideologies. To take part this battle ideas, he conceives new ideal model society, ‘participative socialism’, as an egalitarian alternative to dominant neoproprietarian ideology dangerous resurgence nationalism populism. Th...

Abstract Along with portraits of historical figures, images relating to the culture and history a particular nation, presence (or absence) languages on banknotes is also an element symbolic politics part manifestation language policy state. In this paper, are seen as linguistic landscape, landscape – reflection policy, its peculiar public expression. This paper analyses way in which text displa...

Correctional scholarship has demonstrated concern over the dehumanizing implications of carceral state for incarcerated people. This been paralleled by an interest in understanding work prison staff and how correctional subculture may play active role dehumanization. By drawing from focus groups all prisons one state, we investigate construct manage their identity through “us–them” ideologies. ...

The present study examines the process of globalization popular Brazilian Portuguese (PBP) through spreading capoeira outside Brazil. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in New York City and eight years practice, my objective is to demonstrate that PBP variety exported abroad by practitioners, non-Brazilian ones are learning this non-standard as essential their identity a community practice. Conseq...