We report here trends in the usage of "mood" words, that is, words carrying emotional content, in 20th century English language books, using the data set provided by Google that includes word frequencies in roughly 4% of all books published up to the year 2008. We find evidence for distinct historical periods of positive and negative moods, underlain by a general decrease in the use of emotion-...

Communication Accommodation Theory (CAT) states that people tend to adapt their communication style (voice, gestures, word choice, etc.) in response to the person with whom they interact. Originally, experiments on linguistic accommodation were confined to small scale laboratory settings with a handful of participants. The recent proliferation of online social networks sites offers an opportuni...

Discourse-stylistic has the benefits of an eclectic methodology as well organized study. Also, it can establish a connection between literary and linguistic studies. A discourse-stylistic analysis is presented in this study poem well- known poet British literature, Gerard Manley Hopkins. Accordingly, aims to discuss how cohesion might contribute interpreting understanding poetry. Besides, shows...

The similarity relation of a number of texts is important not only for congress organizers (who need to group the proposed contributions to meaningful sessions) but to everybody who wants to find certain information within a larger number of texts. Existing information retrieval methods compare texts according to their similarity. Because these methods mostly remain on the surface of the words,...

frequency of vocabulary used in a piece of writing, prose or poetry, is one of the stylistic features of the writer. words are like bricks which constitute the structure of a literary work, and the way the writer puts or organizes the words , reflects his/her literary characteristics which in turn distinguishes him/her from other writers. being simply one of the elements constituting the writer...

This thesis describes work on the detection of anomalous material in text without the use of training data. We use the term anomalous to refer to text that is irregular, or deviates significantly from its surrounding context. In this thesis we show that identifying such abnormalities in text can be viewed as a type of outlier detection because these anomalies will differ significantly from the ...

Computer-supported authorship attribution provides tools for extracting stylistic features that can help verify or identify the author of text documents. In many situations finding the author of a document is very important, such as the detection of plagiarism for protecting copyrights and forensic support during criminal investigations. This paper, thus explores a novel stylistic feature with ...

Speech communication employs a host of expressive means ranging from linguistic to paralinguistic and extralinguistic features. It is the natural language, however, whose systematic variation on all levels of its structure (phonology, morphology, lexicology and syntax) offers the widest possibilities of suiting its use to fit communicative functions of discourses in various contexts. Thus lingu...

The description of textual and stylistic features has so far been largely neglected in the empirical study of conversational speech. In this paper we want to make a couple of strong initial points towards the use textual meaning and stylistic features in language engineering: First of all we want to show that there are other besides the traditional features in spontaneous speech that are worth ...

This research examines the employment of cognitive or mentalist words in the titles of articles from three comparative psychology journals (Journal of Comparative Psychology, International Journal of Comparative Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes; 8,572 titles, >100,000 words). The Dictionary of Affect in Language, coupled with a word search of titles, was...