Measuring the Style of Italian Literary Criticism: A Comparison between Professional and Non-professional Book Reviews
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Romanica Cracoviensia, Tom 25 (2025), Tom 25, numer 3, s. 243-255
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Measuring the Style of Italian Literary Criticism: A Comparison between Professional and Non-professional Book Reviews
The paper presents the results of a series of computational analyses applied to professional and nonprofessional book reviews in the Italian language. A corpus of texts from the aNobii platform and from La Domenica del Sole 24 Ore is processed with a stylometric approach (Cosine Delta distance), confirming how 50 most frequent words are more effective in distinguishing the two sources than the usage of a specialized lexicon of literary criticism. Deeper linguistic investigations verify which words are the most important in determining the distinction and how their usage differ in the two content platforms. A closer analysis through word co-occurrence and keyword in context closes the paper, highlighting the more evaluative and subjective language used in non-professional book reviews.
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