Scholarship on Legal Profession: Law vs. Social Disciplines

Student: Chuvakin Sergey

Supervisor: Ella L. Paneyakh

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Modern Social Analysis (Master)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2019

Paper is devoted to the analysis of English texts on the topic "legal profession". Main purpose is to compare lawyers' and non-lawyers' texts. For this end, 250 articles were manually coded, topic modeling (LDA) was conducted, and co-citation networks were built. The work shows that despite the institutional differences, lawyers and non-lawyers differ in the complexity of their methods, the number of persistent topics in abstracts, and the patterns of intertext references.

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