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Diction 5 and General Inquirer . By Serena Hendricks & Pete Lindmark . Diction Background . Originally created for the study of political discourse, expanded to 36 categories of communications. Searches the text word frequency of 10,000 words in 31 word list dictionaries
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Diction 5 and General Inquirer By Serena Hendricks & Pete Lindmark
Diction Background • Originally created for the study of political discourse, expanded to 36 categories of communications. • Searches the text word frequency of 10,000 words in 31 word list dictionaries • Creates scores for the 31 dictionaries and 9 computed variables. • Analyzes in 500 word units
Dictionaries 31 Categories -Size ranges from 10 – 745 words • No words duplicated across dictionaries • Ability to create custom dictionaries • Maximum of ten • Maximum of 200 words per dictionary
Five Semantic Variables Based on Dictionary Formulas ACTIVITY = +(Praise + Satisfaction + Inspiration) – (Blame + Hardship + Denial) OPTIMISM = +(Praise + Satisfaction + Inspiration) – (Blame + Hardship + Denial) CERTAINTY = +(Tenacity + Leveling + Collectives + Insistence) – (Numerical Terms + Ambivalence + Self-Reference + Variety) REALISM = +(Familiarity + Spatial Awareness + Temporal Awareness + Present Concern + Human Interest + Concreteness) – (Past Concern + Complexity) COMMONALITY = +(Centrality+ Cooperation + Rapport) – (Diversity + Exclusion + Liberation)
Theatre Scripts • We analyzed 6 monologues (3 men, women)from Absurdist Theatre Scripts: Birthday Party, Bald Soprano, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, 6 Characters in Search of an Author, Waiting for Godot, & Bald Soprano (again) to examine what makes absurdist plays satirical.
Calculated Variables Insistence Score • Words repeated three or more times in a 500 word text Embellishment • Ratio of descriptive words to functional words Variety • Measure of linguistic dispersion Complexity - Measure of word size
How to…… • File New
How to (2)…. • (Click) Add New File Open (and select files)
How to (3)….. • Open (click) Project Properties Change Normative Values
How to (4)….. • (Click) Processing Process All Files
Absurd Scripts Example • Out of Range scores Bold face
Absurd Scripts Example • Out of Range scores Bold face
Limitations • Samples of less than 350 words handled by extrapolation and standardization to a 500 word basis • Wide variance in sample size (n) of the 36 communication types • Out of range not referenced to 2nd or 3rd deviation
General Inquirer • Standard dictionaries (“custom” allowed) • Descriptive (f and %) • “Harvard-IV-4” and “Lasswell” general-purpose dictionaries; 182 tag categories • Harvard: objects, animals, people, institutions, relationships, etc. • Lasswell: Dynamics of Culture (power, respect, skill, enlightenment, wealth, etc)
In short… • Put text file in a folder, name it “testdir” • Testdir must be in the same folder as General Inquirer (in Program Files) • Can run multiple files within testdir • Output opened in Excel can be transferred to SPSS • Website: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~inquirer/
Input File • Browse Choose .txt file (ONLY ONE)
Output File • First Create Blank .xls file Browse Choose excel file RUN!!!!!!
Our Findings • Hostility, Power, Pleasure, Pain, Feeling, Arousal, and EMOT have little bearing on Absurdist Plays.