the second day of the rest of the dissertation

Taking care of a four year old can be like juggling cats.

Taking care of a four year old and trying to do data analysis on your dissertation is like juggling cats until they fall asleep, and then propping your eyes open while you juggle around your categories while praying that they will make some sense to other human beings, because nothing really makes much sense after all that cat juggling.

Nonetheless, I took the emotion words and put them into Ekman's categories (ADHFSS: anger, disgust, happiness, fear, sadness, surprise), and started to look at some other things that are going on with the character of our focus group discussions.

One thing I can say is there was a fairly frequent and deep conversation on happiness, fear, and anger; but little about disgust, sadness, and surprise. Of course, that has a lot to do with the clips that were watched. Another interesting thing that I noticed was that, linguistically speaking, we have a fairly good cluster of words around in happiness, fear and anger that serve to represent pretty straightforwardly the emotions, but also show a pretty subtle palate of intensities. For example, words in the angry constellation ranged from enraged and outraged to irritated and annoyed in our conversation.

Yet there were EVEN MORE words that did not really fit in any of these categories, but were also clearly emotion words. Where does "guilt" fit in. The point of the study is not really to do a discourse or conversation analysis, so this part need be only a little superficial, but the point here is to help show that in discussing the culture differences around emotion, we are going to need a fairly wide range of vocabulary to get to the subtle differences in emotion words and words to depict mixed emotions and varying emotional intensities.

OK. Tomorrow, I finish the categories to see if some additional clusters of emotion words crop up in the "not ADHFSS" words. Also want to review yoonhwa's comments on the first run of coding. Finally, want to try and run codes on the which cues were paid attention to in interpreting the emotions.

Day two of the last of the dissertation is done.