Are Daojing and Dejing stylistically independent of each other: A stylometric analysis with activity and descriptivity.

It has been qualitatively evidenced that Daojing and Dejing , the two sections of DaoDejing , are independent of each other in content, style, and authorship. However, this claim remains controversial because there has been scant quantitative study of them that probes into their syntactic structure...

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Publicado en:Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 434 - 451
Autores principales: Zhou, Haiyan, Jiang, Yue, Wang, Letao
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Apr2023
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          Zhou, Haiyan
          Jiang, Yue
          Wang, Letao
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          School of Foreign Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China and School of Foreign Languages, Shanxi Normal University , Taiyuan, China
          School of Foreign Studies, Xi'an Jiaotong University , Xi'an, China
          School of Foreign Studies, Chang'an University , Xi'an, China
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        Chi-squared test
        Quantitative research
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        Linguistics
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