The aim of the paper is to examine Facebook postings from an ecological language perspective as a special type of …

Object of research -- Native language acquisition and foreign language learning -- Using corpus-based online tools for …

, apart from English language resources, validated dictionaries are rare. This note introduces a German sentiment dictionary … tool published with this note is indeed able to discriminate positive and negative political language. But the validation … exercises indicate that positive language is easier to detect than negative language, while the scores are numerically biased to …