PHILOLOGICAL INSIGHTS INTO SOCIAL DYNAMICS WITH THE LINGUOSOC MODEL
Abstract
This paper will discuss how linguistic formulas encode and represent social
processes, and the time-honored challenge of finding a systematic way to connect philological
interpretation with quantifiable social behaviour. The classical methods of philology offer rich
contextual information but lack scalability and the capacity to measure large-scale social
patterns using corpora. The current study addresses this issue by utilizing an integrated
model of linguo-social analysis that combines philological theory with computational and
statistical methods. The study approach relies on a corpus of roughly 3.2 million words of
historical, institutional, and digital social texts that illustrate three different social domains.
The linguistic variables that were extracted and analysed with respect to social parameters
such as power relations, group identity, semantic clustering, and pragmatic cues include
lexical frequency, syntactic complexity, and pragmatic markers. Correlations and predictive
power were assessed using multivariate regression, factor analysis, and unsupervised
clustering. Findings indicate that language attributes explain 42-55 % of the variation in
observed social processes in domains. At the level of 27 % above the value of the baseline,
the power asymmetry is strongly related to the modal verb density and directive constructions
(p < 0.01). In contrast, group identity predicts the convergence in lexical terms. The classification of interaction types achieved an overall accuracy of 81.6, indicating a high level
of model reliability and cross-domain stability. The results show that patterns of social
significance are systematically entrenched in linguistic form and can be obtained
quantitatively without any degradation in philological richness. The study concludes that
statistical modelling of language and social structure, supported by philological analysis, can
provide a scalable, empirically based account of the reciprocal relation between language and
social structure.
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