Inferring Depression and Its Semantic Underpinnings from Simple Lexical Choices
Line Kruse,
Roberta Rocca,
Mikkel Wallentin
Abstract:Spatial demonstratives are highly frequent linguistic universals, with at least two contrastive expressions (proximal (“this”) vs. distal (“that”)) indicating physical, social, or functional proximity of the speaker to the referent object. Recent evidence based on the Demonstrative Choice Task (DCT), in which participants couple words with a spatial demonstrative with no context provided, suggests that demonstrative use is also indicative of experienced or emotional proximity to the self in an imagined mental … Show more
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