Kučera Dalibor, Mehl Matthias R
Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, České Budějovice, Czechia.
Department of Psychology, College of Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States.
Front Psychol. 2022 Mar 4;13:819543. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819543. eCollection 2022.
The paper discusses the role of language and culture in the context of quantitative text analysis in psychological research. It reviews current automatic text analysis methods and approaches from the perspective of the unique challenges that can arise when going beyond the default English language. Special attention is paid to closed-vocabulary approaches and related methods (and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count in particular), both from the perspective of cross-cultural research where the analytic process inherently consists of comparing phenomena across cultures and languages and the perspective of generalizability beyond the language and the cultural focus of the original investigation. We highlight the need for a more universal and flexible theoretical and methodological grounding of current research, which includes the linguistic, cultural, and situational specifics of communication, and we provide suggestions for procedures that can be implemented in future studies and facilitate psychological text analysis across languages and cultures.
本文探讨了语言和文化在心理学研究定量文本分析背景下的作用。它从超越默认英语语言时可能出现的独特挑战的角度，回顾了当前的自动文本分析方法和途径。特别关注封闭词汇方法及相关方法（尤其是语言查询与字数统计），既从跨文化研究的角度，在该研究中分析过程本质上包括跨文化和跨语言比较现象，也从超越原始调查的语言和文化焦点的可推广性角度。我们强调当前研究需要更具普遍性和灵活性的理论与方法基础，其中包括沟通的语言、文化和情境细节，并且我们为未来研究中可实施的程序提供建议，以促进跨语言和跨文化的心理学文本分析。
