Relatedness and compatibility: The concept of privacy in Mandarin Chinese and American English corpora
通过分析2010-2019年社交媒体和新闻语料，结合主题建模与人工解读，发现中英文隐私概念存在根本性不兼容，反映了不同社会的伦理传统。
Abstract This study investigates how privacy as an ethical concept exists in two languages: Mandarin Chinese and American English. The exploration relies on two genres of corpora from 10 years: social media posts and news articles, 2010–2019. A mixed‐methods approach combining structural topic modeling (STM) and human interpretation were used to work with the data. Findings show various privacy‐related topics across the two languages. Moreover, some of these different topics revealed fundamental incompatibilities for understanding privacy across these two languages. In other words, some of the variations of topics do not just reflect contextual differences; they reveal how the two languages value privacy in different ways that can relate back to the society's ethical tradition. This study is one of the first empirically grounded intercultural explorations of the concept of privacy . It has shown that natural language is promising to operationalize intercultural and comparative privacy research, and it provides an examination of the concept as it is understood in these two languages.