This new joint article by our Professor Kathleen Ahrens, published in the journal of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications under Springer Nature, examines the political discourses in Hong Kong and Mainland China using the Menzerath-Altmann (MA) law to analyse the relationship between linguistic constructs.
The study found that the parameters of the MA law can distinguish regional variants of political speeches and capture language changes over time. The results suggest that the law can account for the interaction of diachronic language change and synchronic variation in complex self-organising systems.
Open access to the article from HERE.
