Language of politics
Subtitle: studies in quantitative semantics
By: by Harold D. Lasswell, Nathan Leites and associates
Contributors: Leites, Nathan Constantin, 1912-
Series: Library of policy sciences; Library of policy sciences
Publisher: G. W. Stewart
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
Subjects: Political science -- Terminology; Semantics (Philosophy)
Notes: "Most of the work ...  was done at the University of Chicago or in connection with the War Communications Research Project at the Library of Congress"

Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 382-398)
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The language of power, by H. D. Lasswell.  Style in the language of politics, by H. D. Lasswell.  Why be quantitative?  By H. D. Lasswell.; title: Technique: The problem of validating content analysis, by I. L. Janis.  The reliability of content analysis categories, by Abraham Kaplan and J. M. Goldsen.  Recording and context units, four ways of coding editorial content, by Alan Grey, David Kaplan and H. D. Lasswell.  The feasibility of the use of samples in content analysis, by Alexander Mintz.  The coefficient of imbalance, by I. L. Janis and Raymond Fadner.; title: Applications: Detection; propaganda detection and the courts, by H. D. Lasswell.  Trend; May Day slogans in Soviet Russia, 1918-1943, by Sergius Yakobson and H. D. Lasswell.  Interaction; the Third International on its change of policy, by Nathan Leites.  Interaction; the response of communist propaganda to frustration, by Nathan Leites and I. de Sola Pool