Stylistic variation over 200 years of court proceedings according to gender and social class
Stefania Degaetano‐Ortlieb · 2018
We present an approach to detect stylistic variation across social variables (here: gender and social class), considering also diachronic change in language use.For detection of stylistic variation, we use relative entropy, measuring the difference between probability distributions at different linguistic levels (here: lexis and grammar).In addition, by relative entropy, we can determine which linguistic units are related to stylistic variation.