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Scholarly Research Employing the DICTION Language Analysis Program.

Last updatedAugust 14, 2009.

 

 

Books and Monographs.

Hamilton, J. T. (2003). All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Hart, R. P. (1984). Verbal style and the Presidency: A Computer-Based Analysis. New York: Academic Press.

Hart, R. P. (2000a). Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Patterson, T. (2002). The Vanishing Voter: Public Involvement in an Age of Uncertainty. New York: Knopf.

Book Chapters.

Hart, R. P. & K. Sawyer. (2003). Resurrecting the Clinton Presidency: A Linguistic Profile. In R. Denton & R. Holloway (Eds.), Images, Scandal, and Communication Strategies of the Clinton Presidency (pp. 195-218). Westport, CT: Praeger.

Hart, R. P. (1985). Systematic Analysis of Political Discourse: The Development of DICTION. In K. Sanders & D. Nimmo (Eds.), Political Communication Yearbook: 1984 (pp. 97-134). Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois Press.

Hart, R. P. (1986). Of Genre, Computers, and the Reagan Inaugural. In H. Simons & A. Aghazarian (Eds.), Form, Genre, and the Study of Political Discourse (pp. 278-298). Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.

Hart, R. P. (2000b). DICTION 5.0: The Text Analysis Program. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage-Scolari.

Hart, R. P. (2000c). The Unheralded Functions of Campaign News. In S. Chambers & A. Costain (Eds.), Deliberation, Democracy and the Media (pp. 85-105). Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield.

Hart, R. P. (2001). Redeveloping DICTION: Theoretical Considerations. In M. West (Ed.), Theory, Method and Practice of Computer Content Analysis. New York: Ablex.

Shanahan, J. (2000). Messages in Global Climate Change: Using the Diction Program to Analyze News Coverage. In D. N. Bengston (Ed.) Applications of Computer -Aided Text Analysis in Natural Resources. (Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-211. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture.) .

Scholarly, Peer Reviewed Articles.

Abelman, R. & A. Dalessandro. (2008). The institutional vision of community colleges: assessing style as well as substance. Community College Review, 4, 306-335.

Abelman, R. & A. Dalessandro. (2009). Institutional Vision in Christian Higher Education: A Comparison of ACCU, ELCA, and CCCU Institutions. Journal of Research on Christian Education, 18(1), 84-119.

Abelman, R., A. Dalessandro, P. Janstova, S. Snyder-Suhy & G. Pettey. (2007). Charting the Verbiage of Institutional Vision: The Goodness of Fit between Vision Statements and Academic Advising. NACADA Journal, 27(1), 22-38.

Alexander, M., S. Ober, J. J. Zhao, & R. Davis. (1999). Telling It Like It Is: The Use of Certainty in Public Business Discourse. Journal of Business Communication, 36(3), 280-296.

Allison, J. R. & S. D. Hunter (2006). The Feasibility of Improving Patent Quality One Technology at a Time: The Case of Business Methods. Berkeley Technical Law Journal, 21(2), 729-794.

Aust, P. (2004). Communicated Values as Indicators of Organizational Identity: A Method for Organizational Assessment and Its Application in a Case Study. Communication Studies, 55(4), 515-534.

Merola, L. M. (2008). Emotion and Deliberation in the Post 9/11 Media Coverage of Civil Liberties. Democracy and Society, 5(2), 7-10.

Ballotti, J., & L. L. Kaid. (2000). Examining Verbal Style in Presidential Campaign Spots. Communication Studies, 51(3), 258-273.

Bashor, H. (2004a). Content Analysis of Short, Structured Texts: The Need for Multifaceted Strategies. Journal of Diplomatic Language, 1(4), 1-13.

Bligh, M. & G. D. Hess. (2007). The Power of Leading Subtly: Alan Greenspan, Rhetorical Leadership, and Monetary Policy. Leadership Quarterly, 18, 87-104.

Bligh, M. C., J. C. Kohles, & J. R. Meindl. (2004a). Charisma Under Crisis: Presidential Leadership, Rhetoric, and Media Responses Before and After the September 11th Terrorist Attacks. The Leadership Quarterly, 15(2), 211-239.

Bligh, M. C., J. C. Kohles, & J. R. Meindl. (2004b). Charting the Language of Leadership: A Methodological Investigation of President Bush and the Crisis of 9/11. Journal of Applied Psychology, 89(3), 562-574.

Cho, J., et al. (2003). Media, terrorism, and emotionality: emotional differences in media content and public reactions to the September 11th terrorist attacks. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 47(3): 309-327.

Collins, J. et al. (2004). Detecting Collaborations in Text Comparing the Authors' Rhetorical Language Choices in The Federalist Papers. Computers and the Humanities, 38(1), 15-36.

Collins, M. & L. Vinicius. (2009). Computer-mediated communication and the role of adolescence in language development. The Internet Journal of Biological Anthropology,3(1).

DiLeo, D. (2002). The Impact of Rhetorical Situation on Realism as Measured by the Local Content of Governors’ State-of-the-State Speeches. Commonwealth: A Journal of Political Science, 11(3), 39-52.

Downing, J. R. (2007). No Greater Sacrifice: American Airlines Employee Crisis Response to the September 11 Attack. Journal of Applied Communication Research 35(4),350—375.

Eidenmuller, M. E. (2002). U.S. Evangelicalism, Democracy, and Civic Piety: A Computer-Based Stylistic Analysis of Promise Keepers' Stadium and Event and Washington Mall Discourses. Journal of Communication & Religion, 25(1), 64-85.

Finkelstein, S. (1997). Interindustry Merger Patterns and Resource Dependence: A Replication and Extension of Pfeffer (1972). Strategic Management Journal, 18(10), 787-810.

Fogarty T. J., R. K. Rogers. (2005). Financial analysts' reports: an extended institutional theory valuation. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 30, 331-356.

Forsythe, A. M. (2004). Mapping the Political Language of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. Current Psychology. 23(3), 215 - 224.

Geppert, J. & J. E Lawrence. (2008). Predicting Firm Reputation Through Content Analysis of Shareholders’ Letters. Corporate Reputation Review, 11(4), 285-307.

Graddy, D. B. (2003). Mapping Online Discussions with Lexical Scores, Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 14(2), 209-230.

Graddy, D. B. (2004). Gender and Online Discourse in the Principles of Economics. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 8(4).

Hart, R. P. & J. P. Childers. (2004). Verbal Certainty in American Politics: An Overview and Extension. Presidential Studies Quarterly, 34(3), 516-534.

Hart, R. P. & J. P. Childers. (2005). The Evolution of Candidate Bush: A Rhetorical Analysis. American Behavioral Scientist, 49(2), 180-197.

Hart, R. P. & S. Jarvis. (1997). Political Debate: Forms, Styles, and Media. American Behavioral Scientist, 40(8), 1095-1122.

Henry, E. (2006). Market reaction to verbal components of earnings press releases: Event study using a predictive algorithm. Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, 3, 1-19.

Henry, E. (2008). Are Investors Influenced By How Earnings Press Releases Are Written? Journal of Business Communication, 45:363-408.

Huffaker, D. A. & S. L. Calvert. (2005). Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teenage Blogs. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 10(2),

Hunter, S. D. (2003). Information Technology, Organizational Learning, and the Market Value of the Firm. Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application, 5(1), 1-28.

Jarvis, S. (2004). Partisan Patterns in Presidential Campaign Speeches, 1948-2000. Communication Quarterly, 52(4), 403-419.

Kabanoff, B., W. Murphy, S. Brown, & D. Conroy. (2001). The DICTION of Howard and Beazley. Australian Journal of Communication, 28(3), 85-102.

Kinney, N. T. (2006). Engaging in ‘Loose Talk.’: Analyzing salience in discourse from the formulation of welfare policy. Policy Sciences, 38(5), 251-268.

Loomis, D. & P. Meyer. (2000). Opinion without Polls: Finding Link between Corporate Culture and Public Journalism. International Journal of Public Opinion Research, 12(3), 278-284.

Lowry, D. T. (2008). Network TV News Framing of Good vs. Bad Economic News Under Democrat and Republican Presidents: A Lexical Analysis of Political Bias. Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 85 (3), 483-498.

Ober, S. & J. J. Zhao. (1999). Telling It Like It Is: The Use of Certainty in Public Business Discourse. Journal of Business Communication, 36(3), 280-300.

Rogers, R. K., J. Dillard, & K. Yuthas. (2005). The Accounting Profession: Substantive Change and/or Image Management. Journal of Business Ethics, 58(1-3), 159-176.

Seyranian, V., & M. C. Bligh. (2008). Presidential Charismatic Leadership: Exploring the Rhetoric of Social Change. The Leadership Quarterly, 19(1), 54-76.

Sheckels, T. (2001). The Rhetoric of Nelson Mandela: A Qualified Success. Howard Journal of Communication, 12(2), 85-99.

Short, J. C. & T. B. Palmer. (2008). The Application of DICTION to Content Analysis Research in Strategic Management. Organizational Research Methods, 11(4), 727-752.

Stanbury, J., M. Pryer, & A. Roberts. (2005). Heroes and Villains: Tour Operator and Media Response to Crisis: An Exploration of Press Handling Strategies by UK Adventure Tour Operators. Current Issues in Tourism. 8(5), 394–423.

Sydserff, R. & P. Weetman (2002). Developments in Content Analysis: A Transitivity Index and Scores. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 15(4), 523-545.

Yadav, M. S., J. C. Prabhu, & R. K. Chandy. (2007). Managing the Future: CEO Attention and Innovation Outcomes. Journal of Marketing, 71, 84–101.

Yuthas, K., R. Rogers, & J. F. Dillard. (2002). Communicative Action and Corporate Annual Reports. Journal of Business Ethics, 41(1), 141-157.

Scholarly Peer Reviewed Articles In Press.

Hart, R. P. & C. Lind. (in press). Words and Their Ways in the 2008 Campaign. American Behavioral Scientist, 53.

Hart, R. P. & E. Lim. (in press). “Tracking the Language of Space and Time: 1948-2008. Journal of Contemporary History, 44.

Conference Proceedings.

 

Graddy, D. (2002). Rhetorical Approach to Assessing Online Discussion. In C. Crawford et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education International Conference 2002 (pp. 173-174). Chesapeake, VA: AACE.

Conference Presentations.

Abdelrehim, N., J. Maltby & S. Toms. (2009). Oil Nationalisation and Managerial Response: The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 1951. Paper presented at the Symposium on Corporate Social Responsibility, University of York.

Andreini, R. & D. J. Salazar. (2008). Emotions and Movement Framing: A Content Analysis from the Black Power and ACT UP Movements. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon.

Carroll, C. E. (2009). The Relationship between Firms’ Media Favorability and Public Esteem. 13th International Conference on Corporate Reputation. Beijing, China.

Collier, K. (2004). Ghosts in the Machine: Rhetoric and Representation in the White House. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the Midwest Political Science Association.

Collier, K. (2006). Battle Lines: Reconsidering Power Within the White House by Tracking Prose. Paper presented at the annual convention of the American Political Science Association. Philadelphia, PA.

Crew, R. E. & C. Lewis. (2006). Verbal Style, Gubernatorial Strategies and Legislative Success. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA.

Daly, N., A. Khurshid, & C. Kearney. (2009). Correlating Market Movements With Sentiments: A Longitudinal Study. Text Mining Services: 2009. Leipzig, Germany: Leipzeiger Beitrage zur Informatik.

Davis, A. & I. Tama-Sweet. (2008). “Managers’ use of pessimistic tone across alternative disclosure outlets: Earnings press releases versus MD&A.” Paper presented at the Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting, University of Texas at Austin., Austin, TX.

Davis, A., J. Piger, & L. Sedor. (2006). Beyond the Numbers: An Analysis of Optimistic and Pessimistic Language in Earnings Press Releases. Working Paper 2006-005A, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

Dickerson, D., C. Dickerson, C. Stewart , D. Cutshaw, & J. Lambert. (2008). Rhetorical Analysis of Global Warming and Other Socio-scientific Issues in Popular News Media. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching, Baltimore, MD.

Gorton, W. & J. Diels (2009). Is Political Talk getting Smarter? An Analysis of Popular Political Discourse and the Flynn Effect. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Grose, C. & J. Husser. (2008). The Valence Advantage of Presidential Persuasion: Do Presidential Candidates Use Oratory to Persuade Citizens to Vote Contrary to Ideological Preferences? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois.

Haeg, C. (2007). The Cross of Gold in the Modern Age: Neo-Populist Party Leaders and Charismatic Rhetoric. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.

Huffaker, D., R. Swaab, & D. Diermeier. (2007). The Language of Coalition Formation in Online Multiparty Negotiations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Montreal, Canada.

Husser, J, & C. Grose. (2008). The Valence Advantage of Presidential Persuasion: How Presidential Candidates Use Oratorical Skills to Persuade Voters to Vote Contrary to Ideological Preferences. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.

Kaufman, D. (2008). Changing Media, Changing Politics: Political Strategy Adaptations. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois.

Knopf, C. M. (2004). Looking to Heaven for answers: A computer-based rhetorical critique of Christian sermons following the Oklahoma City bombing & the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Paper presented at the annual meeting off the Eastern Communication Association. Boston, MA.

Kovalyova, N. (2006). Exploring Application of Computerized Content Analysis in Social Sciences: Diction 5.0 & Beyond. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association. San Antonio, TX.

Linden, M., N. Sheehy, & J. Wylie. (2000). The Effects of Linguistic Characteristics on Reading Behaviour. Paper presented at the First Irish Workshop on Eye-Tracking, Queen's University Belfast.

Liu, L & R. Taffler. (2008). CEO overconfidence in M&A decision making and its impact on firm performance. Presentation at the Management School of the University of Edinburgh.

Lowry, D. T. (2009). Presidential TV Commercials: Isolating the Key Lexical Characteristics of Winners and Losers: 1952-2004. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Boston, MA.

Lowry, D.T., L. Xie, & O. Witte. (2008). Agenda-setting and Rhetorical Framing by Semantic Proximity: A New Computerized Approach to the Analysis of Network TV News. Paper presented at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Chicago, Illinois.

Royal, C. (2003). Framing the Internet: Before and After the Tech Bust. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Kansas City, KS.

Sebold, K. & A.J. Dowdle. (2009). From Hope to Hot Springs: How two small Arkansas towns influenced a president. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, Illinois.

Sebold, K., A.J. Dowdle, W. Huber, & L. Piatt. (2008). Peer-Family Perceptions and Presidential Personality: Bill Clinton From Hope to Hot Springs. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. New Orleans, LA.

Skalski, P. (2008). CATA Options for the Coding of Open-Ended Survey Data. Paper presented at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Stamp, G. & J. Rutter. (2007). Lexical changes during the transition to parenthood: An exploratory analysis. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association. Chicago, Illinois.

Vincent, R. C. (2006). A Comparative Study of WSIS News Coverage in North American and European Broadcast/satellite, Newspaper and Wire Service Sources. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Association for Mass Communication Research. Cairo, Egypt.

Weber, J. R., C. Word, & G. R. Bilyard. (2003). Use of Stases when Negotiating and Defining Issues in Public Discussions. Proceedings of the Natural and Accelerated Bioremediation Research Program Workshop, Warrenton, Virginia.

Wicks, R. (2004). Message Framing and Cognitive Response to Islam and Terrorism: A Comparison between Christians, Jews and Muslims. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Toronto, Canada.

Wilson, D. & J. Killingley. (2006). Voices of Desistance: An Ethnographic Evaluation of the C-FAR Training Programme. Occasional paper, Centre for Criminal Justice Policy and Research, University of Central England--Birmingham.

Social Science Research Network.

Demers, E. A. & C. Vega. (2008). Soft Information in Earnings Announcements: News or Noise? FRB International Finance Discussion Paper No. 951. 

Mayew, W.J. & M. Venkatachalam. (2009).The Power of Voice: Managerial Affective States and Future Firm Performance. SSRN Working Paper Series. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1171102 .

Rogers, J. L., A. VanBuskirk, & S.L.C. Zechman. (2009). Disclosure Tone and Shareholder Litigation. Working paper No. 09-01, University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Available via Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection (http://ssrn.com).

Dissertations and Theses

Bashor, H. (2004b). Moon Treaty Paradox. Unpublished dissertation, American University of Paris, Paris, France.

Carroll, C. E. (2004). How the Mass Media Influence Perceptions of Corporate Reputation: Exploring Agenda-Setting Effects Within Business News Coverage. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

Connolly, M. L. (2003). The Power of Reputation in Mediated Public Scandal: An Analysis of Coverage of the Kobe Bryant Sexual Assault Case. Unpublished masters thesis, Georgetown University.

Davis, K. (2007). The Presidential Crisis Rhetoric of September 11th, 2001 and Hurricane Katrina: Examples of Charismatic Leadership or Not? Unpublished masters thesis, Clemson University.

Kimminau, J. A. (2001). Civil-Military Relations and Strategy: Theory and Evidence. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University.

Qiu, X. Y. (2008). On Building Predictive Models With Company Annual Reports. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Iowa.

Mendonca, J. (2009). Analyst Statements, Stockholder Reactions and Banking Relationships: Do Analysts’ Words Matter? Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.

Scheidt, L. A. (2007). Diary Weblogs as Genre. Qualifying Paper submitted to the faculty of the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, Bloomington.

Semadeni, M. B. (2003). Leaving the Corporate Fold: Examining Spin-off Actions and Performance. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University.

Sinclair, D. (1985). Rhetoric and Success: The Case of the Southern Baptists. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.

Working Papers.

Mokoteli, T. & R. J. Taffler. (2007). The Roles of Cognitive Bias and Conflicts of Interest in Analysts' Stock Recommendations. Working paper, University of Witwatersrand.

Mokoteli, T., R. J. Taffler, and P. Ryan. (2008). Are Analysts Biased? An Analysis of Analysts’ Stock Recommendations that Perform Contrary to Expectations. Working paper, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Patterson, T. (2000). Doing Well and Doing Good: How Soft News and Critical Journalism Are Shrinking the News Audience and Weakening Democracy. Working paper. JFK School, Harvard University, Cambridge.

Rutter, J. (2006). Voicing Democracy's Spirit: Bruce Springsteen and the Language of the Tangible. Unpublished paper, Ball State University.

Armesto, M. T., R. Hernandez-Murillo, M. T. Owyang, & J. Piger. (2006). Asymmetric Effects of the Beige Book Language. Working paper, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

 

Other Manuscripts.

Hochhauser, M. (1998). Speaking Their Language: Why Patients Have Little Patience for Report Cards. Managed Care, March issue.

North, R., R. Lagerstrom, & W. Mitchell. (1999). Diction Computer Program. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Sands, P. (2002). World wide words: A rationale and preliminary report on a publishing project for an advanced writing workshop. Academic Writing. http://wac.colostate.edu/aw/articles/sands_2002.htm .