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Since the publication the Measurement of Meaning (Osgood, Suci and Tannenbaum, 1957) a group of investigators at the University of Illinois with the financial support of the Human Ecology Fund of New York, and more recently NIMH and NSF, have been attempting to extend the generality of the semantic factors found in American-English speaking subjects. Earlier research in the United States had established that the number of factors along which affective meaning was found to vary were small and consistently identifiable. The three major dimensions of Evaluation, Potency and Activity were repeatedly found to adequately distinguish between attitude objects of almost every conceivable type, from passive sonar signals to personality concepts. Such cross-linguistic studies as were completed in the earlier work often simply translated the measurement instruments used in the United States into the languages of the other groups under investigation. Despite the care with which these translations were carried out, the fact that translation served as the vehicle for the demonstration of crosslinguistic similarity seemed to be a possible source of bias, if indeed the similairities in cross-lingui

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Author

MURRAY S. MIRON; WILLIAM KAY ARCHER

Published

1965

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)