The Semantic Drift of Quotations in Blogspace: A Case Study in Short‐Term Cultural Evolution
Abstract
We present an empirical case study that connects psycholinguistics with the field of cultural evolution, in order to test for the existence of cultural attractors in the evolution of quotations. Such attractors have been proposed as a useful concept for understanding cultural evolution in relation with individual cognition, but their existence has been hard to test. We focus on the transformation of quotations when they are copied from blog to...
Paper Details
Title
The Semantic Drift of Quotations in Blogspace: A Case Study in Short‐Term Cultural Evolution
Published Date
Apr 10, 2017
Journal
Volume
42
Issue
1
Pages
188 - 219
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