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Appendix B - Content analysis: FDR's major foreign affairs addresses, 1935 to 1945

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2015

Ronald R. Krebs
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota
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Summary

Data on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's major foreign

affairs addresses was generated using two content-analysis platforms,

Yoshikoder and Crawdad, whose approaches to text are summarized in

Appendix A. Yoshikoder permits the analyst to identify “categories”

based on a set of specific single words. The categorical terms below were

developed after examination of the full range of words in the data.

Category: Hitler

Included terms: Hitler, Hitler's, Hitler-dominated, Hitlerism, Hitlerisms, Hitlerite, Hitlerites

Category: Nazi and variants

Included terms: Nazi, Nazi-dominated, Nazi-fascists, Nazis, Nazism, Goering

Category: German nation

Included terms: German, German-occupied, Germany, Germany's, Prussia, Junker, Junkers, Kaiser, Kaiserism

Category: Japanese leadership

Included terms: Tojo, Tojo's, emperor, emperor's, Hirohito,Hirohito's

Category: Japanese nation

Included terms: Japan, Japan's, Japanese, Japanese-dominated, Japs

Category: ideological war terms

Included terms: free, freedom, freedom-loving, freedoms, freely, freemen, democracies, democracy, democracy's, democratic, democrats, civilization, civilized, fascism, fascist, fascists, totalitarian, dictator, dictators, dictatorship, dictatorships, slave, slavery, enslave, enslave, enslavement, barbaric, barbarism, barbarous

Category: legal terms

Included terms: crime, crimes, criminal, gangster, gangsters, gangsterism, law, lawless, lawlessness

Category: civilizational terms

Included terms: barbaric, barbarism, barbarous, civilization, civilized

The analysis in Chapters 3 and 4 relies in part on Yoshikoder's computations of the frequency with which these categories appear in FDR's major public addresses.

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Print publication year: 2015

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