This study examines the centrality of ethics within editorials published in Canadian Institute Chartered Accountants’ professional journal, CA Magazine, over 1912 to 2010 period. Starting from twin assumptions that speak about appropriate behavior using a variety words such as ‘ethics,’ ‘conduct,’ and ‘codes,’ is situational, we use topic modeling techniques identify these dimensions ethical di...

The semantic validation of utterances as true or false is known in logic and linguistics. However, linguistic messages are validated not only on the semantic but also on the pragmatic level. In most linguistic studies, pragmatics is defined mostly as the interrelation between speakers and is considered as a mere supplement to semantics. In our approach (we call MIC : meta-informative centering ...