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This study deals with the attitudinal functions ‘difficulty’ and ‘reluctance/inability’ that, according to Sinclair (2004), are mapped onto word sequences containing the phrases naked eye and true feelings, respectively. The methods build on Snefjella Kuperman (2016) who proposed context norms for English words calculated on ratings of valence, arousal, and concreteness. 149 concordances for naked eye from the British National Corpus (BNC) and 2607 concordances for true feelings from the English Web Corpus (enTenTen15) were considered. Using the software R as a text-mining tool, values of context valence, arousal, and concreteness were computed. The binary logistic method was applied on deviant subclasses (stages). The results show that a categorical switch of attitudinal function occurs in true feelings alone, and only regarding context valence and concreteness. |
