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name: tone of a verbal message author: Roderick P. Hart literature: I have to look it up software format: Diction, built-in number of categories: 5 main and 35 sub categories number of search patterns: 10000 language: English text genre: specific Category details: Certainty: Language indicating resoluteness, inflexibility, and completeness and a tendency to speak ex-cathedra. Activity: Language featuring movement, change, the implementation of ideas and the avoidance of inertia. Optimism: Language endorsing some person, group, concept or event or highlighting their positive entailments Commonality: Language highlighting the agreed-upon values of a group and rejecting idiosyncratic modes of engagement. Realism: Language describing tangible, immediate, recognizable matters that affect people’s everyday lives Please send comments and suggestions to
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