Finding meaning in discursive concepts in Early Modern English

What is it about?

The paper reports the historical pragmatic methods for assigning meaning to sets of lexical items that are strongly attracted to one another in discourse that are computationally generated using a procedure called concept modelling. The result is the location of conceptual structures in discourse, labelled discursive concepts.

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Why is it important?

The article argues that meaning is located in discourse before it is assigned to lexical items or words. The article presents the application of historical pragmatic methods to mapping meaning onto computationally generated concept models--sets of words that are strongly attracted to each other in discourse.