Differences in egocentricity between spoken and written expression under stress and non-stress conditions
| Autor: | Nancy J. Sunshine, Milton K. Horowitz |
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| Rok vydání: | 1968 |
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Linguistics and Language Egocentrism Psychological Tests Sociology and Political Science Zipf's law Writing 05 social sciences General Medicine Diversification (marketing strategy) 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Linguistics 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing Word repetition Humans Speech 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Stress conditions 0305 other medical science Psychology Stress Psychological Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Language and speech. 11(3) |
| ISSN: | 0023-8309 |
| Popis: | The Zipf rank-frequency curve, which measures the balance between word repetition and diversification, shows graphical differences between egocentric and socio-centric expression. The problem in this study is to demonstrate, by precise mathematical analysis of these curves, statistical differences in degree of " egocentric orientation." 40 Queens College undergraduates, divided equally into " stress " and " non-stress " groups, were asked to speak on one of two poems and write on the other. 4 Zipf curves were compiled and analysed. Spoken expression was more egocentric than written expression at p < 0.01. Results due to stress were unexpected: both non-stress speech and non-stress writing were significantly more egocentric than stress writing (p < 0.05). This finding is interpreted in terms of activation differences. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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