Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What is computational cultural psychology?
- 2 The digital psychologist: information technology and cultural psychology
- 3 Why don’t primates have God? Language and the abstraction of thought
- 4 Lost in translation: how to use automatic translation machines for understanding “otherness”
- 5 Spies and metaphors: automatic identification of metaphors for strategic intelligence
- 6 Scent of a woman: the mediation of smell and automatic analysis of extended senses
- 7 Dolly Parton’s love lexicon: detection of motifs in cultural texts
- 8 The relational matrix of the I
- 9 Identifying themes: from the Wingfield family to Harry and Sally
- 10 Eating and dining: studying the dynamics of dinner
- 11 Getting even: the cultural psychology of revenge and what computers can do about it
- Epilogue: on generals and mail coach drivers
- Bibliography
- Author index
- Subject index
7 - Dolly Parton’s love lexicon: detection of motifs in cultural texts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 What is computational cultural psychology?
- 2 The digital psychologist: information technology and cultural psychology
- 3 Why don’t primates have God? Language and the abstraction of thought
- 4 Lost in translation: how to use automatic translation machines for understanding “otherness”
- 5 Spies and metaphors: automatic identification of metaphors for strategic intelligence
- 6 Scent of a woman: the mediation of smell and automatic analysis of extended senses
- 7 Dolly Parton’s love lexicon: detection of motifs in cultural texts
- 8 The relational matrix of the I
- 9 Identifying themes: from the Wingfield family to Harry and Sally
- 10 Eating and dining: studying the dynamics of dinner
- 11 Getting even: the cultural psychology of revenge and what computers can do about it
- Epilogue: on generals and mail coach drivers
- Bibliography
- Author index
- Subject index
Summary
Dolly Parton is one of the most famous singers in the USA and is known as the queen of country music. She is well known not only because of her songs but also through her unique physical appearance: her feminine aspects are grotesquely overemphasized, the most salient of them being her huge (artificial) breasts and lips.
One of Parton’s albums, released in 1974, is titled Love Is Like a Butterfly after one of the album’s songs. The first lines of the song, written by Parton herself, go like this:
Love is like a butterfly
As soft and gentle as a sigh
The multicolored moods of love are like its satin wings
If we carefully analyze the song, we may identify words and phrases describing or associated with the experience of love: soft, gentle, sigh, multicolored, satin, wings, heart, feel, strange, inside, flutters, flight, rare, with me, kiss me, touch, warm, tender, with you, laughter, bring me, sunshine, spring, happy, by my side, precious, share, sweet, together, belong, daf odils, butterfly.
From this list I have chosen fifteen words as best representing this experience: soft, gentle, sigh, wings, inside, rare, touch, warm, tender, sunshine, spring, happy, precious, sweet, together. I call this list Dolly Parton’s love lexicon.
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- Introduction to Computational Cultural Psychology , pp. 118 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014