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1. DICTION 5.0 & PCAD 2000
2. Diction 5.0
3. About Diction DICTION 5.0 is distributed by
Roderick P. Hart, Dean of the College of Communication at The University of Texas at Austin
Craig Carroll, an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Diction Website lists over 200 recent scholarly research articles employing Diction
http://www.dictionsoftware.com/index.php
4. About Diction Free Demo Available
Pricing:
Standard Version $179.00
Academic Version $129.00
Exporting Diction Data
Output can be exported to both SPSS and Excel
5. The Normative Range(s) Over 20,000 texts analyzed by Diction
From various text types
The normative range for a given variable changes based upon which of the 6 topics and 36 subtypes is selected.
6 topics - Business, Daily Life, Entertainment, Journalism, Literature, Politics, and Scholarship
6. The Calculated Variables Insistence Score
Words expressed three or more times by the speaker
Embellishment
Ratio of descriptive words (e.g., adjectives) to functional words
Don't have specific independent meaning (content) but that serve as the glue that holds a sentence together - articles, pronouns, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, particles, expletives
Variety
Measure of linguistic dispersion
Complexity
Measure of word size
7. Diction Master Variables Certainty - Language indicating resoluteness, inflexibility, and completeness and a tendency to speak ex cathedra.
Activity - Language featuring movement, change, the implementation of ideas and the avoidance of inertia.
Optimism - Language endorsing some person, group, concept or event, or highlighting their positive entailments.
Realism - Language describing tangible, immediate, recognizable matters that affect people's everyday lives.
Commonality - Language highlighting the agreed-upon values of a group and rejecting idiosyncratic modes of engagement.
8. Diction Home Screen To begin a new project click the File tab and New
9. A New Project in Diction The new project window will open up
10. Adding Files to New Project Click on the Add File button which will open the file finder
11. Project With Files Loaded
12. Modifying Norm Values With files selected click on View Tab and Norm Values
13. Modifying Norm Values
14. Diction Output
15. Attempting to Copy Output Data Not Possible!!!
16. Opening a File in SPSS When you open SPSS you will see this Screen. Click open an existing data source then OK
17. Opening a File in SPSS Locate you Diction data
.. then open it
Default is C:\Program Files\Diction\Data Research.dat
18. Opening a File in SPSS Select no then click Next
19. Opening a File In SPSS Click Delimited then No then Next
20. Opening a File in SPSS Make sure Each line represents a case and All of the cases are selected and then click Next
21. Opening a File in SPSS Select Comma and None and unselect Space and click Next
22. Opening a File in SPSS Nothing to do here, just click Next
23. Opening a File in SPSS You have to option to save this format at this point.
24. Opening a File in SPSS Now your Data is in SPSS, but no names or labels.
25. Getting Your Variable Names Variable names are located in a Syntax file: C:\Program Files\Diction\Stats
26. Getting Your Variable Names Dont attempt to use the syntax directions, instead remove all text (including directions) except variable names
27. Getting Your Variable Names After you delete everything except variable names, form one large column of the variable names
28. Getting Your Variable Names Copy that list and paste it into your variable names under the variable view tab in SPSS
29. Getting Your Variable Names Voila! Now your variables have names and you can run all the analyses that you want
30. Political Speeches Selected the Top 10 speeches from the Top 100 political speeches as listed by American Rhetoric Database which contains political, historical, and pop culture speeches. It contains text and mp3s of most of the modern speeches.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/newtop100speeches.htm
Removed the Four Campaign & Inauguration speeches
31. The Select Speeches 1. MLK - I Have a Dream delivered August 28th 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
3. FRD Pearl Harbor Address to the Nation delivered on December 8, 1941 to the US Congress and broadcast to the nation
6. Richard Nixon Checkers delivered and broadcast live on television September 23rd, 1952
7. Malcolm X The Ballot or the Bullet deliver April 3rd, 1964 in Cleveland, Ohio
32. The Selected Speeches 8. Ronald Reagan The Challenger Tragedy Address delivered and broadcast January 28th, 1986
10. LBJ Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Voting Legislation AKA We Shall Overcome delivered March 15th, 1965, Washington, D.C.
33. An Example of the Texts
34. Basic Diction Output
35. Calculated Variables
36. Master Variables
37. PCAD 2000 Psychiatric Content Analysis and Diagnosis
38. PCAD 2000 Content analyzes text input based on scales developed by Louis A Gottschalk and Goldine Gleser.
Gottschalk-Gleser content analysis scales were originally designed for human coding, beginning in the 1960s.
PCAD was developed to reduce time lost due to human training and coding as well as eliminate issues of inter-coder reliability.
39. Gottschalk-Gleser Scales Anxiety
Hostility Outward
Hostility Inward
Ambivalent Hostility
Social Alienation-Personal Disorganization
Cognitive Impairment
Hope
Depression
Health/Sickness
Human Relations
Achievement Strivings
Dependency Strivings
Quality of Life
40. Uses Clinical
Quick first visit diagnostic
Accumulate samples from one individual over time to evaluate the effectiveness of regime being used
Research
Large collection of samples used for comparison of numerical scale outputs, not diagnosis
41. Input Sample text can be elicited in an endless number of ways. Examples are:
content of psychotherapeutic interviews
an individual can be asked to report their feelings and attitudes towards another person or persons
the speaker may be asked to relate their angry or anxious experiences
speaker may be asked to report dreams.
42. Input The standard procedure was used to determine the demographic norms
This procedure elicits a five minute sample based on a neutral question (Tell me about an interesting life event)
Normally produces about 500 words
Samples of 85-90 words are generally reliable
43. What you need A .txt or .sam file containing at least 85-90
Reliability and accuracy increase with sample size
A PC with PCAD 2000 installed
44. Opening screen
45. File ? Open
46. Find directory ? change *.SAM to *.TXT ? click Open
47. Dont do this
48. Or this happens
49. Select scales to analyze
50. File ? Score
51. Select desired output
52. SHORT DESCRIPTIONS OF RECENT DREAMS BY GEORGE GILBS My brother and I are soldiers based in our hometown (Pensacola). We are on active duty, and are going into guerrilla battle. Surprisingly, we are allowed to stay at a friend's beach house in Pensacola and commute daily to the war. We patrol a jungle area. The enemy is not specific, not any nation really. All I know is that they are poorly armed, while we have super badass machine guns that afford perfect aim at impossible ranges. So, for two days my brother and I move forward, killing hundreds of enemy soldiers. On the third day my parents and friends are over at the beach, eager to hear my war stories, I thought. Anyway, I am eager to talk about how I've had to kill all these people, about how I could die at any minute, about how I can't take it any more. People seem to be polite, but uncomprehending. I mean, they smile at me and say indulgently "sure, of course." I realize nobody really believes me. I'm furious. I write out my experiences, I demand attention. But I overhear people offering condolence to my parents for having to put up with their now-insane son. A friend convinces me to promise to stop talking about my war experience long enough for a few hours of quiet fishing. It then dawns on me that it is imaginable that I did, in fact, not fight this guerrilla war after all. My parents' psychiatrist friend tells me that it's not my fault and that I must have been drugged. He asks me to think back and I remembered taking some sort of alleged antidepressant a few days earlier. I admit that it is probably true that I had been hallucinating, but don't know how to accommodate what I know I experienced. I give up my will and put myself in the hands of doctors. But the World Trade Center is still gone.
53. Output Scored Clauses
54. Output Diagnoses to consider
55. Output - Summary Analysis
56. Output Statistics on each scale
57. Output - Excel If selected, PCAD will create an Excel file with all of the scale and subscale results
The Excel file is automatically placed in the same directory with the same name as the .sam or .txt file that was used as a sample
Example
58. Disclaimer Samples that are not obtained using the standard procedure cannot be directly compared to the norms of the subjects demographic group
59. Just for fun Joker sample It's the schemers who put you where you are. You were a schemer. You had plans. Look where it got you. I just did what I do best- I took your plan, and I turned it on itself. Look what I've done to this city with a few drums of gas and a couple of bullets. Nobody panics when the expected people get killed. Nobody panics when things go according to plan, even if the plan is horrifying. If I tell the press that tomorrow a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics. Because it's all part of the plan. But when I say that one little old mayor will die, everybody loses their minds! Introduce a little anarchy, you upset the established order and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. And you know the thing about chaos, Harvey?
60. Joker Scale Summary Normal
Hostility Outward (Overt)
Hostility Outward (Covert)
Hostility Inward
Ambivalent Hostility
Cognitive Impairment
Hope
Human Relations
Health scale
Slightly high (1-2 sd above mean)
Social Alienation/Personal Disorganization
Depression
Moderately high (2-3 sd above mean)
Anxiety
Very high (greater than 3 sd above mean)
Health
Health/Sickness
61. Just for fun Facebook About Me Sample was obtained from an individuals About Me section on their Facebook page
This sample most closely resembles the standard procedure of eliciting text based on an ambiguous prompt
62. Output About Me
63. Comments/Questions?