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Rita Hargitai, Mátyás Naszódi, Balázs Kis, László Nagy, Adrien Bóna, János László

Linguistic markers of depressive dynamics in self-narratives: negation and self-reference

The first part of the study deals with the psychological meaning of negation and self-reference. Next we introduce a new content analysis program for the automatic coding of negation and self-reference. We argue that this new program can perform morphological analysis that available English language software is not capable of. We also give an overview of previous empirical studies of negation and self-reference, which were based on word-frequency count. The paper presents the process of operationalisation on the level of the linguistic markers of negation and self-reference. It also provides empirical results in terms of the validity and reliability of negation and self-reference algorithms.

Empirical Text and Culture Research, RAM-Verlag

Volume: 3, 08/2007
Pages: 26-38

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