Communicating Norms of Conduct: The Semantics of Professionalism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
ABSTRACT This paper explores how two public accounting associations, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA), conveyed norms of conduct to members and students through editorials published in the Journal of Accountancy and CA Magazine from 1916 to 1973, with a focus on the use of profession-related terms. Drawing on Bakhtin’s concept of stylistic aura and employing advanced textual analysis techniques, the study reveals that profession stem words played a key role in communicating these norms by synthesizing varied normative concerns into a cohesive professional discourse applicable across settings. The semantic meanings of these sentences shifted over time and between journals. Additionally, the study finds that utterances with profession stem words were more pervasive and better at highlighting competing concerns than ethics stem words. This study contributes to our understanding of accounting association communication processes, specifically communication via professional narratives.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".