Personality Traits Characterized by Adjectives in a Famous Chinese Novel of the 18th Century

Zhu, Jiangcheng; Chen, Wanzhen; Fan, Hongying; Zhang, Bingren; Liao, Kebin; Li, Xin; Xu, You; Wang, Wei

doi:10.1177/2158244015592019

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“…Thus, strengthened level of quality does strengthen persuasive texts even more. In line with Zhu et al (2015), the use of adjectives sometimes does not appear in full, but can explain a series of sentences.…”

Section: Attenuate Level Adjectival Retentionmentioning

confidence: 88%

Adjectival Retention: Persuasive Texts Students Universitas Negeri Makassar

Azis,

Juanda,

Korompot

2023

Ethical Lingua

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This research contributes to language development, especially adjectival retention as a very basic resilience in the text. Research on adjectives has been conducted by (Kennedy, 2013), (Schiff et al., 2014), (Sharma et al., 2015), (Sato et al., 2016), (Cutillas & Tolchinsky, 2017) Compared to the previous studies, however, the present study focuses on adjectival retention. In addition, the research findings also provide an understanding of the use of adjectives with the meaningfulness contained in the sentence. This research is a qualitative one, using a content analysis method. The data consist of persuasive essays written by 83 students of Indonesian Language and Literature Education Program in the Faculty of Languages and Literature at State University of Makassar, submitted during March to September 2019 period. While the research data were in the form of adjectives in the essays submitted, the research instrument was the researchers themselves. Data collection was done by giving assignments to the students to write persuasive essays. Data analysis techniques were identifying, reducing, presenting the data, verifying, and drawing conclusions about adjectival retention. The findings of the study indicate the following cases of adjectival retention: (a) weakening of positive adjectival retention; (b) intensive retention occurring not only with the precursor which precedes it, but also with the constituent following it; (c) elative retention appearing only after the use of verbs in the sentence; (d) excessive adjectival retention having a formation that occurs due to a conjunction stating the cause; (e) retention of argumentative adjectives placing emphasis on the part of the core sentence; (f) retention of attenuate adjectives reinforcing one another and not weakening the other parts. Overall, some 42% of the essays contain adjectival retention and 58% of them were without adjectival retention.

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Section: Attenuate Level Adjectival Retentionmentioning

confidence: 88%

Adjectival Retention: Persuasive Texts Students Universitas Negeri Makassar

Azis,

Juanda,

Korompot

2023

Ethical Lingua

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“…One group of investigators however, by analyzing nearly five hundreds personality-descriptive adjectives in the first 80 chapters of DRM, have reported a five-factor structure of personality traits, namely Wicked, Intelligent, Amiable, Conscientious, and Frank, which was similar to the contemporary fivefactor model [41]. With rich social and family environment sources, and detailed character descriptions (including speech, behaviors, and psychological scopes), DRM might provide some information about personality disorders and their related culture/ family factors in the 18th century.…”

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Narrations of Personality Disorders in a Famous Chinese Novel of the Eighteenth Century - A Dream of Red Mansions

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Fan²,

Chen³

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J Psychiatry

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Journal of Psychiatry AbstractBackground: Traditional Chinese culture, such as the paternalism, male dominance and collectivism, contribute to normal and disordered personality traits, and the influence might be traced back to an ancient epoch. As a compendium of Chinese culture, the novel, A Dream of Red Mansions (up to first 80 chapters) written in the 18th century, might be a vector of these traces.

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Personality Traits Characterized by Adjectives in a Famous Chinese Novel of the 18th Century

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Adjectival Retention: Persuasive Texts Students Universitas Negeri Makassar

Adjectival Retention: Persuasive Texts Students Universitas Negeri Makassar

Narrations of Personality Disorders in a Famous Chinese Novel of the Eighteenth Century - A Dream of Red Mansions

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