The adjective-verb quotient; a contribution to the psychology of language

Boder, David P.

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“…DICTION uses 33 predefined dictionaries, containing over 10,000 search words, to analyze a passage and compares texts to norms created through the analysis of 22,027 texts of various sorts written over 50 years. The construction of DICTION dictionaries was based on careful attention to linguistic theory (see Boder, 1939;Easton, 1940;Flesch, 1951;Hart 1984aHart , 2001Johnson, 1946;Ogden, 1960). These dictionaries are expressly concerned with the types of words "most frequently encountered in contemporary American public discourse" (Hart, 1984b, p. 110).…”

Section: Computerized Content Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Institutional Vision at Proprietary Schools: Advising for Profit

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A college or university's general approach to students and student support services, as reflected in its institutional vision, can serve to advocate the adoption of one type of advising structure, approach, and delivery system over another. A content analysis of a nationwide sample of institutional vision statements from NACADA-membership colleges and universities was performed. Findings suggest that for-profit institutions are driven by an outcome-oriented, pragmatic mission statement rather than the complex, compelling vision statement often employed by traditional nonprofit institutions. The customer-service model of the former places priority on student affairs, but in the form of highly centralized prescriptive academic-advising operations. Implications for all academic institutions are discussed. Relative Emphasis: research, practice, theory

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“…Are coordinators and subordinators directly or indirectly correlated? Some of these questions are related to claims in stylistics studies, e.g., that verbs and adjectives are inversely related and reveal unconscious psychological traits (Boder, 1940). Including these relationships is "cheap" in the amount of space they take in the output file, and they might prove to be helpful in describing styles or, perhaps, in developing a general description of English.…”

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μ-EYEBALL: An interactive system for producing stylistic descriptions and comparisons

Ross

Hunter

1994

Comput Hum

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Abstract:We have revised the mainframe EYEBALL, written in the early 1970s and used by several researchers during that decade, to run on microcomputers. This program parses English language texts and provides a statistical description of many linguistic features which are of interest to those involved in stylistics. In order to produce an analytical approach which goes beyond the simple reporting of linguistic data, we have selected a small number of features which characterize noticeable elements of the language used and we have written programs parsing routines are elegant enough that the users spend most of their time confirming accurate guesses, rather than having to determine the structure of each phrase and clause. We hope that the program will be used by humanities scholars who have not previously been inclined to wrestle with the barriers of mainframe computing in the past.Key Words: syntax, parsing, statistical stylistics Introduction This article outlines the major overhaul we have made in a computer program called EYEBALL (Ross and Rasche, 1972) to make it available as a tool for describing and comparing many features of style. While several more sophisticated linguistic analysis programs have been announced and implemented, and statistical procedures abound through commercial packages, EYEBALL has been developed to work in the computing environment available to most humanities researchers -an inexpensive PC with limited disk and computing space, a straightforward and comprehensible approach to descriptive and comparative statistics, and an integrated set of programs which should be fairly easy to learn. The new version of the program has been used to analyze a rather large database of student and professional writing, and the results have revealed complex patterns of stylistic development through the college years which challenge our ideas about the teaching of writing.EYEBALL circumvents the limitations of

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“…Several other metrics were considered for this research. First, Boder (Boder, 1940) and Busemann (Busemann, 1925) use a simple ration of adjectives to verbs as predicate values to gauge the emotional intensity of language. This is an important metric, though it is incomplete according to experts in the fields of psychology and psychiatry (Gottschalk, 1955;Gottschalk, 1995;Gottschalk, Hausmann, & Brown, 1975;Jarvis, 1949;Kaplan, 1943;Malla, 1991;Viney, 1981Viney, , 1983.…”

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Semantic Orientation of Sermons From the 1920s to 1980s—Areas of Consistency and Variability

Bedford¹

2013

JCRS

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Traditionally, the field of knowledge management has focused on knowledge that is created in work-related settings, in high profile organizations, and sectors which have high economic value. As the knowledge economy expands into all aspects of society, there is increased awareness of the value of understanding how people transfer knowledge in everyday contexts, beyond the formal work or business environment. Religious communities are "knowledge rich" in both foundational knowledge and beliefs and knowledge practices. To date, though, the knowledge management literature has not considered religion as an area of study or research. In 2011, researchers at Kent State University undertook exploratory research into the knowledge management practices of religious communities, specifically the use of language in sermons. Sermons are an important source of knowledge transfer and mobilization in religious communities. That research focused on the intentional and extensional language of sermons across nine religious denominations, including Evangelical Lutheran, Evangelical Baptist, Seventh Day Adventist, Catholic, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, Congregational and Unitarian.

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The adjective-verb quotient; a contribution to the psychology of language

Cited by 75 publications

References 2 publications

Institutional Vision at Proprietary Schools: Advising for Profit

Institutional Vision at Proprietary Schools: Advising for Profit

μ-EYEBALL: An interactive system for producing stylistic descriptions and comparisons

Semantic Orientation of Sermons From the 1920s to 1980s—Areas of Consistency and Variability

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