<p><strong>What are the verbal signs of subjectivity?</strong></p>

<p>I am doing research about the linguistic content of media (debates, talk-show, sport comments). It occurs that once the participant gets nervous or excited, the grammatical structure of the sentences and word choice (growing amount of modal verbs, judgmental adjectives, not politically correct nouns, dynamic verbs) can change.</p>

<p>That is why I am looking for sources that give me some research results about how emotions affect our verbal expressions (e.g., sentence structure, word usage, etc). </p>

<p>My research is in Polish and Dutch. </p>

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2012-07-18T21:02:39.150Z
I'd be very interested in the outcome of your research. I'm studying how to identify author profile in written documents, and now going to study how spoken and written are related...
woliveirajr
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2012-07-19T04:04:02.303Z
@PaulinaDymalska ngram analysis would be useful. Its being used to settle long time disputes on who made a particular quote in an analytic way and could be used in media discourse as well. You may view http://books.google.com/ngrams/ to get some idea.
Ubermensch
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2012-10-08T00:16:41.297Z
What about semantic analysis using NLTK in Python?
mac389
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2012-11-15T10:56:43.237Z
Perhaps you might be able to get an answer on [linguistics](http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/). Unfortunately I can't migrate the question there anymore since this question is older than 60 days. In case you ask the question there, consider deleting this one after you have received answers. Also keep us posted if you post there.
Steven Jeuris
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2012-11-15T20:08:19.740Z
Better yet, ask this question on http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/ and then **comment on both questions**, linking them to each other. Then, **when one question gets an accepted an answer, post that answer to the other question and accept it**.
Josh
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2013-05-31T05:02:05.623Z
In my work, I follow the model proposed by Peter Gardenfors (http://www.fil.lu.se/person/PeterGardenfors) in 'Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought'. Trying to understand how emotions affect verbal expressions, you may find his ideas useful. Peter Gardenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the precognitive (I guess we could include emotions too) and symbolic (language).
Dana Sugu
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How do emotions influence the language structures we use?
Paulina Dymalska
# How do emotions influence the language structures we use?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2012-07-18)

**What are the verbal signs of subjectivity?**

I am doing research about the linguistic content of media (debates, talk-show, sport comments). It occurs that once the participant gets nervous or excited, the grammatical structure of the sentences and word choice (growing amount of modal verbs, judgmental adjectives, not politically correct nouns, dynamic verbs) can change.

That is why I am looking for sources that give me some research results about how emotions affect our verbal expressions (e.g., sentence structure, word usage, etc).

My research is in Polish and Dutch.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: I'd be very interested in the outcome of your research. I'm studying how to identify author profile in written documents, and now going to study how spoken and written are related...  
> **username_2**: @PaulinaDymalska ngram analysis would be useful. Its being used to settle long time disputes on who made a particular quote in an analytic way and could be used in media discourse as well. You may view http://books.google.com/ngrams/ to get some idea.  
> **username_3**: What about semantic analysis using NLTK in Python?  
> **username_4**: Perhaps you might be able to get an answer on [linguistics](http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/). Unfortunately I can't migrate the question there anymore since this question is older than 60 days. In case you ask the question there, consider deleting this one after you have received answers. Also keep us posted if you post there.  
> **username_5**: Better yet, ask this question on http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/ and then **comment on both questions**, linking them to each other. Then, **when one question gets an accepted an answer, post that answer to the other question and accept it**.  
> **username_6**: In my work, I follow the model proposed by Peter Gardenfors (http://www.fil.lu.se/person/PeterGardenfors) in 'Conceptual Spaces: The Geometry of Thought'. Trying to understand how emotions affect verbal expressions, you may find his ideas useful. Peter Gardenfors offers his theory of conceptual representations as a bridge between the precognitive (I guess we could include emotions too) and symbolic (language).  

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