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What are the verbal signs of subjectivity?

I am doing research about the linguistic content of media (debates, talk-show, sport comments). It occurs that once the participant gets nervous or excited, the grammatical structure of the sentences and word choice (growing amount of modal verbs, judgmental adjectives, not politically correct nouns, dynamic verbs) can change.

That is why I am looking for sources that give me some research results about how emotions affect our verbal expressions (e.g., sentence structure, word usage, etc).

My research is in Polish and Dutch.

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I'd be very interested in the outcome of your research. I'm studying how to identify author profile in written documents, and now going to study how spoken and written are related... – woliveirajr Jul 18 '12 at 21:02
@PaulinaDymalska ngram analysis would be useful. Its being used to settle long time disputes on who made a particular quote in an analytic way and could be used in media discourse as well. You may view books.google.com/ngrams to get some idea. – Ubermensch Jul 19 '12 at 4:04
What about semantic analysis using NLTK in Python? – mac389 Oct 8 '12 at 0:16
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Perhaps you might be able to get an answer on linguistics. Unfortunately I can't migrate the question there anymore since this question is older than 60 days. In case you ask the question there, consider deleting this one after you have received answers. Also keep us posted if you post there. – Steven Jeuris♦ Nov 15 '12 at 10:56
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Better yet, ask this question on linguistics.stackexchange.com and then comment on both questions, linking them to each other. Then, when one question gets an accepted an answer, post that answer to the other question and accept it. – Josh Gitlin♦ Nov 15 '12 at 20:08

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