A Multi-dimensional Sentiment Study on Chinese College Students'Second Language Writings
The transgender and cross-level sentiment mining is conducted and English essays on the same topic by second grade non-English majors in colleges is studied by using the LIWC-based dictionary.It is found that in terms of the cognitive process dimension,male learners had higher cognitive involvement than females,stronger expression of wishes and demands,stronger logic,and overt masculinity.In the investigation of first-person pronoun singular index,which has been used as an indicator of anxiety and depression,the male and female groups did not show any significant difference,but this index was positively correlated with the grades of writings.There was no significant difference neither between cross-gender groups nor between cross-level groups respectively on the representation of positive and negative emotions.
LIWCcorpus-basedsentiment analysissecond language writing
NETL
NSTL
万方数据
