Take their word for it: The symbolic role of linguistic style matches in user communities

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1201-1218

  Ludwig, Stephan ^a   De Ruyter, Ko ^b   Mahr, Dominik ^b   Wetzels, Martin ^b   Brüggen, Elisabeth ^b   De Ruyck, Tom ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c InSites Consulting   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Argument development quality; Linguistic style match (LSM); Organizational identification; Text mining; User communities

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; LINGUISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCOMMODATION THEORIES; COMMUNITY IDENTIFICATION; LINGUISTIC STYLES; ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATIONS; POISSON REGRESSION MODELS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; TEXT MINING; USER COMMUNITIES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84919428077     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: 21629730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.25300/misq/2014/38.4.12     Document Type: Article

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