This diagram above shows how much characters in Double life speak about
one another, and thus how much they are spoken about. The horizontal axis lists
the speakers; the vertical axis lists persons spoken about, but only if they’re
spoken about more than twice. The size of the circle reflects how many times the
spoken-about person is mentioned by the speaker. You can see who’s a chatterbox
by looking along the verticals, and you can see who’s a person of interest by
looking along the horizontals.
At the moment our analysis conflates speech in the first person (I don’t
know or I want some tea) with speech about the self (I’m the
kind of person who loves drinking tea), and this may be justified, since
even I want some tea reflects a certain agency. Characters who may seem
in this diagram to talk a lot about themselves may instead be simply speaking a
lot, in which case they are likely to use first person verbs and pronouns along
with other speech elements. To see the exact number of speeches, mouse over the
circle and in a moment the number will appear