Comparative Keyword Analysis Research Articles

Mining and visualizing large-scale course reviews of LMOOCs learners through structural topic model.

Understanding Language Massive Online Open Courses (LMOOCs) learners' subjective evaluation is essential for language teachers to improve their instructional design, examine the teaching and learning effects, and promote course quality. The present research uses word frequency and co-occurrence analysis, comparative keyword analysis, and structural topic modeling to analyze 69,232 reviews from one Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) platform in China. Learners hold a strongly positive overall perception of LMOOCs. Four negative topics appear more commonly in negative reviews as compared to positive ones. Additionally, variations in negative reviews across course types are examined, indicating that learners' main concerns about high-level LMOOCs include teaching/learning problems, learner expectation, and learner attitude, whereas learners of low-level courses are more critical in the topic of scholarship ability. Our study contributes to the LMOOCs study by providing a better understanding of learners' perceptions using rigorous statistical techniques.

“Anak ng Bayang Dukha”: A Computational and Comparative Keyword Analysis of Sakdalista and Communist Discourses from 1925 to 1941

“Anak ng Bayang Dukha”: A Computational and Comparative Keyword Analysis of Sakdalista and Communist Discourses from 1925 to 1941

The Hierarchy of News Values – A Corpus-Based Diachronic and Cross-Cultural Comparison of News Reporting on Epidemics

ABSTRACT This study adopts a comparative keyword analysis to examine a corpus of news reports (N = 1009) published in Chinese and American newspapers on SARS and COVID-19 outbreaks to uncover the hierarchy of news values and potential differences across time and cultures. The results show that the news values of “Impact”, “Superlativeness”, “Proximity”, and “Eliteness” are often prioritized in both newspapers. For cross-cultural differences, the Chinese newspaper prefers a constructive reporting style through emphasizing “Positivity” in terms of agency, proactive measures, and favorable outcomes in fighting the outbreaks. The American newspaper prioritizes “Proximity” in terms of relevance to its audience. For diachronic changes, the Chinese newspaper has developed a unique theme to construct “Positivity” by calling for the solidarity of the international community. The Chinese newspaper also moves away from prioritizing geographic “Proximity” and government actors in constructing “Eliteness”. The American newspaper, however, changes to cover more government actors. The American newspaper also changes its exclusive economic focus in constructing “Impact” to emphasize the epidemic’s impact on various aspects of people’s lives. This study accounts for how the sociocultural context and the different magnitudes of SARS and COVID-19 outbreaks shape newspaper reports in China and the US.

Diversity in Coworking Spaces: A Comparative Keyword Analysis of Online Customer Reviews

Coworking spaces emerged as a new type of shared workspace for entrepreneurs and mobile knowledge workers but significant differences exist among coworking spaces. For instance, coworking in corporate franchise occupied with thousands of members and coworking in independent operators with relatively small group of coworkers offers vastly different experience. We examine the differences of coworking spaces based on users’ perceptions of coworking spaces collected from online customer reviews. This paper uses a novel research method, comparative keyword analysis, and finds strong evidence that operation types of coworking spaces are closely related to the differences in members’ coworking experiences. Specifically, we find that independent coworking space are salient for its positive review mentioning the keyword ‘entrepreneur’.

Is Gender a Driver of Topic Choice? A Comparative Keyword Analysis of Political Cable News Interviews

Cable news networks have become an increasingly important source of political news in the United States. They wield considerable influence on public opinion, particularly in relation to current issues involving social roles and gender dynamics. This study offers insights into how the choice of topic in political cable news interviews may be influenced by the gender of participants. A corpus of 40 political cable news interviews was compiled and analyzed on the basis of various combinations of male and female interviewers and interviewees. Corpus software was implemented to extract keywords that were then grouped to identify prominent topics according to gender. Topics discussed exclusively among male participants were more issue oriented (i.e., immigration, healthcare, the economy, and gun control) as compared to those discussed exclusively among female participants that were more in social nature (i.e., personal matters, the Kavanaugh Supreme Court nomination, and tech giants in the context of social justice). Results showed that topics emerging from the female participants’ discourse were aligned with some widely held perceptions of women’s speech. At the same time, other features of the female participants’ speech appeared to be driven largely by their professional and institutional roles, and thus, not aligned with stereotypical perceptions. The findings have implications for the role of media and cable news in contemporary American society in avoiding the perpetration of gender-related topic bias.

‘Going negative’: An APPRAISAL analysis of the rhetoric of Donald Trump on Twitter

This article explores a selection of the tweets of President Donald Trump, specifically in relation to his use of negativity as a rhetorical political strategy. The study is guided by a corpus-based comparative keyword analysis and the analytical framework of APPRAISAL, from Systemic Functional Linguistics, which is concerned with the language of evaluation. The study reveals that in order to carry out an approach of ‘going negative’, Trump utilises the APPRAISAL system in a variety of ways, with the ultimate aim to attack and undermine the character of his political opponent.

A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF THE TOP FIVE ECONOMICS JOURNALS DURING 2012–2016

AbstractThis study presents a bibliometric analysis of the top five economics journals during the period 2012–2016 and provides helpful insights into the document types, the distribution of country/territories, the distribution of institutions, the geographical distribution of authors, the most active authors and their research interests or fields, the co‐authorship network, and global/local cooperation. This paper also provides valuable information about the core historical references and the hottest new papers through co‐citation analysis and citation analysis. A co‐word analysis based on the keywords and thematic noun‐phrases in the titles and abstracts of the sample papers was used to explore the hot research topics in the top five journals (e.g. ‘price’, ‘game’, ‘consumption’, ‘income’, ‘international trade’, ‘employment’, ‘monetary policy’, ‘welfare effects’ and ‘developing countries’). In addition, a comparative keyword analysis was used to explore the differences in the directions and characteristics of each journal and the changes in research focuses between ‘new’ and ‘old’ studies. The analytical methods of this study differ from those of reviews or previous studies, and the results fill the gaps not covered by those works.

Of activists and gatekeepers: Temporal and structural properties of policy networks on Twitter

There is an ongoing academic debate whether social media empowers activists and advocacy groups in relation to established political actors and media gatekeepers. This article investigates these premises by analysing the influence of various actors in two policy debates on Twitter, environmental policy (climate change) and Internet governance (net neutrality). We extract tweets on both topics and code the respective 500 most central accounts according to a categorisation of relevant political actor groups. Applying methods from social network analysis, we reveal temporally fluctuating actor constellations and network structures which converge to elite actors during high attention periods. Furthermore, a comparative keyword analysis shows that non-governmental organisations and citizen media emphasise personalised connective action frames, whereas political actors and traditional media tend to refer to the political decision-making process and its institutions. Both findings are in line with cyclical conceptions of policy processes.

Interviews and Internet Forums: A Comparison of Two Sources of Qualitative Data

We report a comparative keyword analysis of interviews and Internet postings involving people with breast and prostate cancer and discussion of sexual health. Interviewees produce retrospective accounts, their content guided by interviewers' questions, which might elicit rich biographical and contextual details. Internet exchanges concern participants' current experiences and contain detailed accounts of disease processes, medical procedures, bodily processes, and, in the case of sexual health, sexual practices. They are used by participants to exchange information and support in a relatively anonymous context. Because of the ease with which large amounts of such archived Internet materials can be accessed and analyzed, this source has considerable potential for direct observation of illness experiences, although some disadvantages also exist. This reverses an earlier situation where observational research was more laborious than qualitative interviews. Observational material for research purposes is, through the Internet, now easy to obtain and produces naturalistic data.

Expressing pain and fatigue: A new method of analysis to explore differences in osteoarthritis experience

To apply a new method of analysis to 2 large qualitative datasets in order to examine differences in osteoarthritis (OA) experience according to the affected joint (knee or hip) and sex. A secondary analysis of qualitative data from 2 studies was conducted. Study 1 comprised 28 focus groups with 50 men and 80 women (ages 47-92 years). Study 2 comprised 14 focus groups with 32 men and 56 women (ages 56-91 years). All participants had symptomatic OA. In Study 1, secondary analysis using comparative keyword analysis (CKA) compared relative frequencies of words uttered by participants experiencing knee pain with words used by participants experiencing hip pain. In Study 2, CKA compared words used by men with words used by women. Subsequent analysis explored the contexts in which participants used key words. All participants in Study 1 described concerns with their bodies, activity limitations, and pain management, but details of their concerns differed. People with knee pain focused on stairs, weight, and stiffness, while those with hip pain were concerned with sidedness and groin pain. In Study 2, both men and women discussed activity and interaction with spouses. However, men used more factual words, especially relating to enumeration, while women offered more explanation without prompting from others. CKA provides productive inroads into qualitative datasets. Understanding the different ways that affected joints are discussed, and sex differences in descriptions of OA, may lead to improvements in clinical assessment tools, better targeting of interventions, and enhanced communication between health care professionals and patients.

The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives

ABSTRACTRecognition of the greater capacity of older women to draw on supportive social networks has now supplemented an earlier focus of research into gender and ageing which portrayed older men as a ‘privileged gerontocracy’ because of their greater access to financial resources and spousal care. This study of the experiences of cancer among people of three different age groups conducted a comparative keyword analysis of their narratives to consider the gender differentiation of a third resource: access to medical information and personnel. The analysed narratives were sampled from a large archive of research interviews. It was found that older men with cancer demonstrated a greater involvement with medicine as an expert system than younger men or women or older women. This stemmed from their social confidence when interacting with doctors and their interest in treating their illness as a ‘problem’ to be fixed with medico-scientific solutions. Compared with younger men and women of all ages, older men were less likely to draw on informal social and family networks for support, or to discuss in a direct style the emotional dimension of illness experience. Our findings contrast with other studies that have reported linguistic disadvantage in older people in elderly care settings, which underlines the importance of context for linguistic studies.

Mapping the field of medical sociology: a comparative analysis of journals

A comparative keyword analysis of the content of nine leading journals is used to suggest potential new directions for medical sociology. The major British and American journals in sociology and medical sociology tend to publish authors based in their own countries, contrasting with the internationalism of other social science disciplines relevant to health, although Sociology of Health and Illness is an exception to this. Medical sociology journals on both sides of the Atlantic focus on individual experience more than general sociology journals, which focus more on social systems levels of analysis. While journal contents reveal British medical sociology to be relatively atheoretical when compared with British general sociology journals, American medical sociology appears relatively apolitical on the same comparison with American general journals. American journals of sociology publish more quantitative studies than their British equivalents, more studies concerning race and other social divisions in American society, and less work drawing on social constructionist perspectives or that is engaged with social theory. Analysis of health and health care at societal and global levels and a deeper engagement with the political and public issues that concern non-sociologists represents a possible future for a medical sociology that is internationally relevant and outward looking.

Gender, cancer experience and internet use: A comparative keyword analysis of interviews and online cancer support groups

A new method, comparative keyword analysis, is used to compare the language of men and women with cancer in 97 research interviews and two popular internet based support groups for people with cancer. The method is suited to the conjoint qualitative and quantitative analysis of differences between large bodies of text, an alternative to the ‘code and retrieval’ approach used in much thematic analysis of qualitative materials. Web forums are a rich source of data about illness experience and gender differences. Marked differences in the performance of gender are evident. These differences follow linguistic and other behavioural patterns (such as social network differences) established in other contexts. Men with prostate cancer indicate in research interviews that they are more likely to seek information on the internet; women with breast cancer that they are more likely to seek social and emotional support. Men's concerns cluster around treatment information, medical personnel and procedures. Their experience of disease is more localised on particular areas of the body, while women's experience is more holistic. Women's forum postings orientate much more towards the exchange of emotional support, including concern with the impact of illness on a wide range of other people. Women's use of superlatives as well as words referring to feelings indicate their enactment of greater emotional expressivity. Web forums are platforms for an intensification of men's knowledge gathering activities. Web forums, though actually quite publicly visible, appear to be subjectively experienced by both sexes as relatively private places for the exchange of intimate personal information. The ‘privacy’ of the breast cancer forum facilitated interactions found in other studies to be characteristic of women's friendship groups.