This paper presents the use of Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) for measuring prosodic differences between variable-sized sentences. This methodological study may apply to various prosodic functions, accented or expressive speech. Both the structuring and attitudinal functions of prosody are investigated here. We evaluated the relevance of three prosodic (dis)similarity measures to account for percei...

The present study was carried out with the purpose of examining the role of metaphorical language in the critical discourse analysis (CDA) of political texts based on the CDA framework and attitudinal model of appraisal theory. According to CDA, the categories of deception, power relations, manipulation, authority, legitimation, and ideology were considered in the analysis of the texts an...

This paper examines empirically the three concepts of loyalty that have been recently proposed in the literature: attitudinal loyalty, share loyalty, and differentiation loyalty. Measures of these concepts are compared at both aggregate (brand loyalty) and individual (customer loyalty) level. The findings support the view that each is indeed a separate concept, though each are, as hypothesised,...

D. Oyserman, H. M. Coon, and M. Kemmelmeier (2002) provide a most comprehensive review of empirical studies that used attitudinal surveys to capture cultural variations in individualism and collectivism. In the present article, the author suggests that the cross-cultural validity of attitudinal surveys can no longer be taken for granted. Moreover, the meta-theory underlying this literature (cal...

To examine how inclusive our schools are after 25 years of educational reform, students with disabilities and their parents were asked to identify current barriers and provide suggestions for removing those barriers. Based on a series of focus group meetings, 15 students with mobility limitations (9-15 years) and 12 parents identified four categories of barriers at their schools: (a) the physic...

Research on the relation between attitude and behavior is examined in light of the correspondence between attitudinal and behavioral entities. Such entities are defined by their target, action, context, and time elements. A review of available empirical research supports the contention that strong attitude-behavior relations dre obtained only under high correspondence between at least the targe...

The purpose of the study was to examine the structure of the attitudinal scale of the ATIPDPE, an instrument based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) of Ajzen (2000). Participants were 145 prospective physical educators (70 females & 75 males), of an average age of 21.19 years, enrolled in three physical education teacher preparation programs in the Czech Republic. Based on analysis, the a...

The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is still a popular customer loyalty measurement despite recent studies arguing that customer loyalty is multidimensional. Therefore, firms require new data-driven methods that combine behavioral and attitudinal data sources. This paper provides a framework that holistically assesses and predicts customer loyalty using attitudinal and behavioral data sources. We buil...