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Li, Ying (2019) From words to mind : what can we learn about us from the language we produced? PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
Language is not just a record of past events. It represents our interactions with the environment: how we feel, conceptualise, construct and communicate our experience. It also weaves the cultures within which our identities, emotions, values and a long list of other important psychological phenomena are shaped. This makes language a fertile ground for studying psychology. This dissertation shows how quantitative text analysis informs emotions of individuals, opinions in a society, and a history of a concept. I suggest that text analysis, a thread of research that dates all the way back to the earliest days of psychology, should revive in light of the availability of many unprecedentedly large corpora and extend its scope beyond case studies of individual minds. The Macroscope, a linguistic tool we developed for examining the historical language structure, makes it convenient for anyone to explore and investigate historical change of psychology in the context of socioeconomic dynamics.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Psycholinguistics, Anthropological linguistics, Discourse analysis | ||||
Official Date: | March 2019 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Department of Psychology | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Hills, Thomas | ||||
Sponsors: | Leverhulme Trust | ||||
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Extent: | 111 leaves : illustrations (some colour) | ||||
Language: | eng |
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