Measuring Moral Rhetoric in Text

Social Science Computer Review

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 132-144

  Sagi, Eyal ^a   Dehghani, Morteza ^b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

discourse analysis; latent semantic analysis; moral foundations dictionary; moral foundations theory; moral rhetoric

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898853688     PISSN: 08944393     EISSN: 15528286     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894439313506837     Document Type: Article

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