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Onward Ho! Studying Place Emotions, Language Style, and Social Tendencies in Travel Blogs

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management

Source : Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management, Volume 10, Issue 6 (2017)

Url : http://indianjournalofmanagement.com/index.php/pijom/article/view/115370

Keywords : Asia, Emotions, Language Style, ravel Blogs, Social Tendency

Campus : Coimbatore

School : Dept. of Mass Communication, School of Engineering

Year : 2017

Abstract : A narrative analysis of the blog posts from Asian countries taken from travelblog.org was conducted in January 2017 in order understand the travel bloggers' emotional experiences, language style, and social tendencies. Tone Analyzer from IBM was used to study emotional dimensions (anger, disgust, fear, joy, and sadness) ; language style dimensions - analytical, confident, tentative ; and social tendency dimensions - openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional range. The results showed sadness and joy being the predominant emotions expressed in the travel blogs that were studied. Tourists are exposed to both the best and worst things in the places of travel, and so probably, they experience joy and sadness together. Anger was the least expressed emotion. Emotional range topped among social tendencies of bloggers, with a tentative language style being utilized across travel accounts in Asia.

Cite this Research Publication : A. Abdulla and Dr. Kalyani Suresh, “Onward Ho! Studying Place Emotions, Language Style, and Social Tendencies in Travel Blogs”, Prabandhan: Indian Journal of Management, vol. 10, no. 6, 2017.

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