Language, whether spoken or written, is an important window into people's emotional and cognitive worlds. Text analysis of these narratives, focusing on specific words or classes of words, has been useful in numerous research studies including studies of emotional, cognitive, structural and process components of individuals' verbal and written language. It was in this research context that the "Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count" programme was developed. The programme analyzes text files on a word-by-word basis, calculating percentage words that match each of several language dimensions. Its output is a text file that can be opened in any of a variety of applications, including word processors and spreadsheet programmes. The programme has 68 pre-set dimensions (output variables) including linguistic dimensions, word categories tapping psychological constructs, and personal concern categories, and can accommodate user-defined dimensions as well. Easy to install and use, this software offers researchers in social, personality, clinical and applied psychology a valuable tool for quantifying the rich but often slippery data provided in the form of personal narratives.
The software comes complete on one 3.5" diskette and runs on any Windows-based computer.
Language, whether spoken or written, is an important window into people's emotional and cognitive worlds. Text analysis of these narratives, focusing on specific words or classes of words, has been useful in numerous research studies including studies of emotional, cognitive, structural and process components of individuals' verbal and written language. It was in this research context that the "Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count" programme was developed. The programme analyzes text files on a word-by-word basis, calculating percentage words that match each of several language dimensions. Its output is a text file that can be opened in any of a variety of applications, including word processors and spreadsheet programmes. The programme has 68 pre-set dimensions (output variables) including linguistic dimensions, word categories tapping psychological constructs, and personal concern categories, and can accommodate user-defined dimensions as well. Easy to install and use, this software offers researchers in social, personality, clinical and applied psychology a valuable tool for quantifying the rich but often slippery data provided in the form of personal narratives.
The software comes complete on one 3.5" diskette and runs on any Windows-based computer.
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Part 1 Getting Started: Installing LIWC on Your PC; Running LIWC; Reading and Analyzing LIWC Output; Customizing LIWC Output; Creating and Using Custom Dictionaries. Part 2 Preparing Written Text for LIWC Analysis: Naming Text Files; Typing Conventions - Written and Interview Samples; Transcribing Oral Transcipts -Special Problems. Part 3 Common Problems in Running LIWC: Getting Some Practice - Running the Samples; The Development and Psychometric Properties of LIWC; The LIWC Framework; The LIWC Main Text Processing Module; The LIWC Dictionary; LIWC's External Validity; Base Rates of Word Usage. Part 4 Tables: LIWC Output Variable Information; Summary Information for LIWC Statistics; LIWC Means Across 43 Studies.
