This paper highlights the underutilized analytical potential of compounds and neologisms as indicators of discursive change in text mining applications, particularly in the study of parliamentary discourse and conceptual transformation. Drawing on results from two research projects, this project-wide paper discusses how compound neologisms function as markers of discursive change through case studies focused on the formation, frequency, and productivity of compounds related to the key concepts of 'market' and 'terrorism' in the Swedish Parliament. The analysis combines distant reading techniques to identify large-scale trends and close reading to examine the specific contexts of these compounds. By focusing on compound formation, we emphasize the analytical potential of basic linguistic features often overlooked in Digital Humanities research, offering a fresh perspective on large parliamentary datasets and their role in tracing conceptual transformations over time.

Denna artikel undersöker hur språk och integration tas upp i svenska valrörelser med fokus på valrörelsen 2022. Språkfrågor har inte haft en framträdande roll i svensk politik men blivit alltmer omdiskuterade i samband med frågor om invandring och integration, inte minst inför valet 2022. Artikeln presenterar två delundersökningar som utgår från ett diskursanalytiskt perspektiv på ämnes i texter. Båda undersökningarna gör analyser av valmanifest där den första delundersökningen ger en översikt av hur språk- och integrationsämnen fått utrymme i tidigare valrörelser. Huvudundersökningen analyserar valmanifest från riksdagspartierna inför valet 2022 och har tre resultatteman. 1) Ett bristperspektiv när det gäller invandrares språkkunskaper som återkommer hos flera partier och som skiljer sig från tidigare valrörelser. 2) Betoning på kunskapskrav i svenska för att kunna etablera sig i det svenska samhället och 3) att aktuella partier bidrar till ett svenskspråkigt samhälle genom att erbjuda utbildning. Resultaten visar en förskjutning mot att ett ensidigt bristperspektiv alltmer dominerar debatten om språk och integration samt att frågor om språk ofta verkar användas som underlag för andra integrationsfrågor som sysselsättning eller utanförskap.

This paper presents a study of the market concept in the records of the Swedish bicameral parliament from 1867 to 1970. The study, and an underlying project, adapt a theoretical and methodological combination of history of concepts, discourse analysis and computer linguistic methods. The theoretical and methodological framework is described and discussed, including a tool for investigating linguistic representations of the market concept in the records. Results from the dimensions of productivity and agency are presented, based on working hypotheses about a change of meaning towards a more abstract and complex understanding of market over time, which also is partially supported by the findings.

This article presents a critical study of advertisements mainly from banks in Swedish daily newspapers over a period from 1870 to the 1970s. The advertisements aim for the general public and promote savings and loans services and products. The questions of the study include what is pro- moted to whom and how in the advertisements? Also, how is individual money management framed and presented over time in these marketing texts? Besides a presentation of the main results from the study, its critical aim is continuously discussed from three different perspectives of analysis: the textual, practice-oriented and institutional levels. The analysis shows a development from non-addressing of an advertisement reader in the period from 1870 to the 1920s to direct addressing of the reader and also increased mentioning of specific reader groups in the later 20th century period. The advertisements also show a change from simply stating the banks' services and products to actively arguing and invoking direct strategies of persuasion by the use of both verbal and graphic text elements. The critical discussion of the article states the relevance of focusing on the intermingled relations between the textual, practice-oriented and institutional levels in order to relate the results to the socio-economic contexts of the advertisements in their time periods.

There are several different methods for implementing curricular elements, but fairly few procedures for determining the success of the implementation. The central question is whether the student has mastered the desired set of skills and the expertise that fulfil the ambitions of the original policy documents. This paper presents a procedure for analyzing how ambitions related to education for sustainable development (ESD) are implemented in educational programmes, i.e. how political ambitions are cascaded down to the level that the student meets in the courses. The method was applied to the programmes in chemical engineering, mechanical engineering and engineering physics at two Swedish universities. The methodological framework is based on analyses of how ambitions on ESD are handled in texts in relevant documents at different levels and the relation between these. The selected texts were: the national degree ordinance, university policy documents, programme curricula, intended course learning outcomes, and learning assessment texts. While the study is focused on the inclusion of sustainable development competences in engineering education, the presented procedure should be general enough for application to any studied aspect of skills in a programme, in particular when this skill is developed in several different courses. The described procedure can also be used to monitor changes over time.