Table 4 Linguistic features on D1 (See full version in Appendix B).

From: Linguistic variation in mediated diplomatic communication: a full multi-dimensional analysis of interpreted language in Chinese Regular Press Conferences

 

Positive

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Negative

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D1

First-person pronouns

0.925

Lexical density

−0.975

Demonstratives

0.904

Average word length

−0.968

Demonstrative pronouns

0.889

Longer words

−0.951

Contractions

0.882

Total other nouns

−0.920

Present tense

0.877

Attributive adjectives

−0.920

Analytic negation

0.819

Phrasal coordination

−0.905

 

Relative clauses

0.814

N+ and/or +N

−0.863

 

Total adverbs

0.807

Nominalizations

−0.817