When a text is translated does the complexity of its vocabulary change? Translations and target readerships.

In linguistic studies, the academic level of the vocabulary in a text can be described in terms of statistical physics by using a "temperature" concept related to the text's word-frequency distribution. We propose a "comparative thermo-linguistic" technique to analyze the vo...

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Main Authors: Hênio Henrique Aragão Rêgo, Lidia A Braunstein, Gregorio D'Agostino, H Eugene Stanley, Sasuke Miyazima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110213