Formal analysis and inter-cultural studies

Semantic analysis procedures in the sciences of man

“…Parallel to the purely theoretical attempt to include semantic observations in the framework of generative or transformational analysis, (e.g., Katz and Fodor, 1964;Katz and Postal, 1965), a whole list of far more specific and practical studies must be included, in sociology, ethnology, even in literary criticism, where all the various methods described aim to bring into relief the meanings underlying the most diverse texts, from interviews, questionnaires, press clippings (e.g., Stone, 1967), or folk tales and myths (e.g., Maranda, 1967), to tragedies and novels, all sorts, and not only written works, but also publicity pictures, films, buildings, city maps, etc. These methods are inspired by linguistic studies, which is natural today, but specialists in linguistics have no monopoly on their conception and even less on their exercise.…”

“…It was only with the advent of electronic computers, and the corollary incitation to transform human reasoning into algorithms, that the first experiments in the automatic analysis of tales were carried out, in the sixties. Again, the GI is the foundation of the later experiments of Bricker (1969) and of Maranda (1967 and which were also oriented toward the formal characterization of specific sets of narratives: the comic stories of the Zinacantan Indians in Mexico (200 texts, Bricker) or the cosmogonic myths of four G6 tribes in Brazil (134 texts, Maranda). By definition, as one may now say, the procedure consists in translating a NL corpus into a predetermined metalanguage by means of the customary tools for this translation (dictionary, rules for the interpretation of polysemous occurrences, syntactical analysers, etc.).…”

Cartographie sémantique : esquisse sémiographique de la Québécoise

“…Nous avons mis au point des protocoles pour réaliser la « cartographie sémantique » de populations (Maranda 1967(Maranda , 1976(Maranda , 1977b(Maranda , 1978a(Maranda , c, 1979Blouin 1980). Dans nos enquêtes, les répondants remplissent d'abord une fiche sociographique (annexe).…”

Inteligência semiótica e TripAdvisor: deep learning e quantificações subjetivas na análise dos discursos de sanção de restaurante

“…Decisions to spare in the preparation of the data must be paid for in terms of poorer results in exponential ratio to the amount of time saved in the first phase." de táticas ainda hoje atuais: sentenças na voz passiva foram convertidas em voz ativa, frases complexas foram divididas em sequências concatenadas por conjunções e depois normalizadas por meio da inserção de especificadores (Maranda;1967: 9). Atividades que, a uma primeira vista, lembram muitos os trabalhos realizados por meio de lematizadores.…”

“…O programa KWIC é mais útil para a abordagem 'êmica', pois imprime uma concordância detalhada. (MARANDA;1967: 11) 17 A partir dessa atividade, o pesquisador apresenta os principais temas encontrados e representados no dicionário (figura 2, abaixo). No artigo, Pierre Maranda menciona a existência de uma gramática subjacente à lista de temas, a qual seria construída por meio de interpretações sociológicas da antropologia estrutural.…”