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@article{Puetz2021,

title = {Meaning structures in the world polity: A semantic network analysis of human rights terminology in the world's peace agreements},

author = {Kyle Puetz and Andrew P. Davis and Alexander B. Kinney},

url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304422X21000887},

doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101598},

issn = {0304-422X},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-08-12},

urldate = {2021-08-12},

journal = {Poetics},

pages = {101598},

abstract = {We examine changes in the use of human rights language in peace agreement texts from 1990 to 2018. Existing research in world polity theory examines institutional change through the lens of increasing isomorphism, a lens that generally fails to appreciate qualitative transformations in the meaning of institutional concepts across time. As a corrective to this approach, we endorse a meaning-structure institutionalism that conceives institutional concepts in relational terms and use a method of textual analysis — semantic network analysis — to analyze and formally model the shifting meaning of human rights in peace agreement texts. We show that human rights language in peace agreements has undergone multiple qualitative shifts since its initial emergence in the mid-1980s. Specifically, the term human rights occupies a marginal position in peace agreement texts in the 1990s, is used in reference to and thus bridges multiple substantive themes in the 2000s, and, finally, inhabits a conceptual silo in the 2010s in the sense that it is associated with many concepts within but no concepts outside of a semantic community related to rights and democracy. We discuss implications for world polity theories of institutionalism that follow from our relational framework.},

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@article{Hoffman2018,

title = {The (Protestant) Bible, the (printed) sermon, and the word(s): The semantic structure of the Conformist and Dissenting Bible, 1660–1780},

author = {Mark Anthony Hoffman and Jean-Philippe Cointet and Philipp Brandt and Newton Key and Peter Bearman},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poetic.2017.11.002},

doi = {10.1016/j.poetic.2017.11.002},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-06-01},

urldate = {2018-06-01},

journal = {Poetics},

volume = {68},

pages = {89-103},

abstract = {Using co-occurrence methods for identifying semantic structure in texts, we first describe the structure of the Protestant Bible, focusing on the ways in which contents of the Bible are organized in both the New and Old Testaments. We introduce a strategy for capturing the co-occurrence of nouns and verbs in windows defined by verses that progressively move across the text, from start to finish in a manner similar to reading. We then consider how Dissenters and Conformists used the Bible by locating Biblical verse in sermons printed in England during the period from 1660 to 1780. We describe how chapters are linked by themes over time, by dissenting and conformist religious communities, and map Dissenter and Conformist uses of the Bible onto its semantic structure. We show that it is possible to induce a semantic network image of the Bible, that this structure serves as a skeletal frame for interpretation, thereby highlighting different contents as central to denominations’ religious inspirations and concerns.},

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