The expression of emotions in 20th century books.

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 distinc...

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Autores principales:	Alberto Acerbi, Vasileios Lampos, Philip Garnett, R Alexander Bentley
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Publicado:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:94e9a543011045889046418e5ede3d3e2021-11-18T07:52:41ZThe expression of emotions in 20th century books.1932-620310.1371/journal.pone.0059030https://doaj.org/article/94e9a543011045889046418e5ede3d3e2013-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/23527080/?tool=EBIhttps://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203We 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.Alberto AcerbiVasileios LamposPhilip GarnettR Alexander BentleyPublic Library of Science (PLoS)articleMedicineRScienceQENPLoS ONE, Vol 8, Iss 3, p e59030 (2013)
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description	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.
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The expression of emotions in 20th century books.

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