Publications

Publication details [#64887]

Cannava, Kaitlin E., Andrew C. High, Susanne M. Jones and Graham D. Bodie. 2018. The Stuff That Verbal Person-Centered Support Is Made of: Identifying Linguistic Markers of More and Less Supportive Conversations. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 37 (6) : 656–679.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversation | lexicon | markedness | message1 | verbal action

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Albeit the functions of messages differing in verbal person centeredness (PC) are well-established, less is known about the linguistic content that distinguishes messages with different PC levels. This inquiry explores the lexicon of distinct PC comfort levels and tries to determine whether computerized assay can replete human coders when coding helpful conversations.