A. Acerbi
The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books
Acerbi, A.; Lampos, V.; Garnett, P.; Bentley, R.A.
Authors
V. Lampos
P. Garnett
R.A. Bentley
Abstract
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-related words through time. Finally, we show that, in books, American English has become decidedly more “emotional” than British English in the last half-century, as a part of a more general increase of the stylistic divergence between the two variants of English language.
Citation
Acerbi, A., Lampos, V., Garnett, P., & Bentley, R. (2013). The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books. PLoS ONE, 8(3), Article e59030. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059030
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Feb 11, 2013 |
Online Publication Date | Mar 20, 2013 |
Publication Date | Mar 1, 2013 |
Deposit Date | Mar 22, 2013 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 16, 2013 |
Journal | PLoS ONE |
Publisher | Public Library of Science |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 8 |
Issue | 3 |
Article Number | e59030 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0059030 |
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Copyright: © 2013 Acerbi et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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