Variation Among Blogs: A Multi-dimensional Analysis

Abstract

A blog, short for a weblog, is a website containing an archive of regularly updated online postings. The postings are generally made by one person and presented in reverse chronological order. The archive is generally made freely available to the public. The postings tend to consist primarily of raw text, but may also contain hyperlinks and other media, including picture, video and sound files. Often blogs allow for readers to post comments as well.

List of 131 Initial Features

Verbs, private verbs, public verbs, mental verbs, activity verbs, persuasive verbs, communication verbs, occurrence verbs, causative verbs, existence verbs, aspectual verbs, common verbs, pro-verb do, auxiliary have, be as main verb, transitive phrasal verbs, intransitive phrasal verb, mental phrasal verb, communication phrasal verb, occurrence phrasal verb, copular phrasal verb, aspectual phrasal verb, activity phrasal verb, modals, predictive modals, possibility modals, necessity modal, present tense, past tense, perfect aspect, progressive aspect, infinitives, passives, agentless passives, by passives, post-nominal passive, prepositions, pronouns, first person pronouns, second person pronouns, third person pronouns, demonstrative pronouns, pronoun it, nouns, nominalizations, group nouns, place nouns, quantity nouns, technical/concrete nouns, abstract nouns, cognitive nouns, process nouns, human nouns, adjectives, attributive adjectives, predicative adjectives, color attributive adjectives, evaluative attributive adjectives, time attributive adjectives, size attributive adjectives, topical attributive adjectives, relational attributive adjectives, particles, adverbs, non-factive adverbs, factive adverbs, likelihood adverbs, attitudinal adverbs, adverbials, time adverbials, place adverbials, conjuncts, clausal coordination, phrasal coordination, downtoners, amplifiers, general emphatics, general hedges, conjunctions, conditional subordinators, causative subordinators, concession subordinators, other subordinators, wh words, wh questions, wh clauses, wh relative clauses, object relatives, subject relatives, that relatives clauses, all that clauses, all that clauses with verbs, all that clauses with nouns, all that clauses with adjectives, that clause with non-factive verbs, that clause with factive verbs, that clause with attitudinal verbs, that clause with likelihood verbs, that clauses with factive adjectives, that clauses with attitudinal adjectives, that clauses with likelihood adjectives, that clauses with non-factive nouns, that clauses with factive nouns, that clauses with attitudinal nouns, that clauses with likelihood nouns, all to clauses, to clauses with all adjectives, to clauses with all verbs, to clauses with mental verbs, to clause with desire/intent/decision verbs, to clause with effort verbs, to clause with probability verbs, to clause with speech act verbs, to clause with modality/cause/effort verbs, to clause with all nouns, to clauses with certainty adjectives, to clauses with ability/will adjectives, to clauses with personal affect adjectives, to clauses with ease/difficulty adjectives, to clauses with evaluative adjectives, verb complements, adjective complements, type token ratio, average word length, text length, that deletion, contraction, stranded prepositions, split auxiliaries, post nominal to clauses, post nominal that clauses.