Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2016
Abstract
The current contribution focuses on the variation in the links of the concepts of "crime" and "punishment" in the Arabic texts from the Medieval times until the 20th century. The links are studied on a diachronic corpus of Arabic (CLAUDia, 420 million words) by means of methods of corpus linguistics, with accent put on such methods whose interpretation is rather intuitive (KWIC analysis, restricted collocability measure analysis and co-occurrence analysis).
The results show that in the older times, the link between the two concepts was either non-existent or only marginal, and the connection between them was established only during the coming of the modern times, i.e. in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.