Leaders have been observed to use distinct rhetorical strategies, but it is unclear to what extent such strategies are effective. To address this issue we analyzed the official election campaign speeches of successful and unsuccessful Prime Ministerial candidates in all 43 Australian Federal elections since independence from Britain in 1901 and measured candidates' use of personal ('I', 'me') a...

This study explores how the expression of feelings and use personal pronouns on Twitter are associated with user engagement. Unlike most previous studies which focused types emotions that generate engagement, it uses volume-control model, also considers social dimension power. Looking at usage pronouns, examines balance achieved between popular messages target larger groups personalized smaller...

The degree to which people construe their perceived self as independent from or interdependent with their social environment can vary. We tested whether the current degree of social self-construal predicts the degree to which individuals integrate others into their self-concept. Participants worked through tasks that drew attention to either personal interdependence (e.g., by instructing partic...

Within an approach in which agreement relations can target either the syntactic features or the semantic features of the agreement trigger, the goal of this paper is to explain the distribution of these two types of agreement relations in Serbo-Croatian, focusing on the cases in which the agreement trigger is a hybrid noun. Of particular interest are the situations in which a given word class (...

This paper presents three corpora with coreferential annotation of person entities for Portuguese, Galician and Spanish. They contain coreference links between several types of pronouns (including elliptical, possessive, indefinite, demonstrative, relative and personal clitic and non-clitic pronouns) and nominal phrases (including proper nouns). Some statistics have been computed, showing distr...

One of the most fundamental, yet often overlooked, components language is personal pronoun system. Pronouns reveal and empower different perspectives, providing insight into even altering how a person conceptualizing self. Here, we illustrate pronouns “I,” “you,” “we” can enable shifts in perspective that bring further from, or closer to, others. We additionally highlight implications these on ...

This paper discusses the position of Set B pronouns in Proto-Mayan. While previous reconstructions differ from each other with regard to exact that occupied respect predicate (alwayspreceding, always following, or sometimes preceding and following word), all them assume attached just as they usually do modern Mayan languages. Based on cases colonial languages where attach either a non-predicate...

“I usually had preliminary notebooks in which I took those elements of a language, which, on the whole, we know are the most stable over time. These are things like the personal pronouns, particularly first and second person, names for the parts of the human body... I would look at a very large number of languages in regard to these matters, and I did find that they fell into quite obvious grou...

This paper presents novel psycholinguistic evidence on the factors governing pronoun resolution in German. To determine the relative influence of linear order versus grammatical function of potential referents in the German Mittelfeld on pronoun interpretation, an interpretation-preference task was run on 23 German natives. Subjects chose the preferred referent for fully ambiguous personal pron...

This Thesis presents a deep study of the influence and the use of syntactic roles ans semantic information in the pronominal anaphora resolution for Spanish and, specifically, the generated by personal, demonstrative, reflexive and omitted pronouns. A combination of both knowledge sources is proposed in order to propose a linguistic, scientific and methodologic base basis based on enriched info...