About
The Global Language Monitor
Austin, Texas-based, Global Language Monitor (GLM) documents, analyzes and tracks trends in language the world over, with a particular emphasis upon Global English. GLM is based in Austin, Texas. GLM is incorporated as an LLC. GLM has deep academic and internet roots. GLM’s predecessor site, yourDictionary.com is the direct descendent of Dr. Robert Beard’s Web of Online Dictionary at Bucknell University, founded in 1994.
If There’s a Trend, There’s MediaBuzz; If There’s a Narrative, There’s Narrative Tracker
In 1999, Paul JJ Payack, joined Dr. Beard, and software entrepreneur George B. Wilson and reorganized Web of Online Dictionaries into yourDictionary.com, where Payack was the founding president. YDC assembled the industry’s premier advisory council of experts. In 2003 Payack, created the Global Language Monitor to carry on the media analysis functions began at YDC. (For example, YDC was the first dictionary to publish its annual Word of the Year WOTY ™ lists.) Dr. Beard continues as president of AlphaDictionary. George Wilson, a serial entrepreneur, has successfully founded several other software companies, two of which Payack was a senior executive.
GLM’s proprietary software is key to its leadership position as the top global media analytics organization for the world wide web. GLM has been cited hundreds of by the leading print and electronic media the world over. In fact, the worldwide print and electronic media have come to rely on The Global Language Monitor for its expert analysis on language trends and their subsequent impact on politics, culture and business, including the PQ Index/Indicator, analysis of media coverage of major, worldwide events, the rise of Global English and its march to its 1,000,000th word, the Chinglish Phemomenon, Global yoofSpeak, and many others.
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Worldwide Media
The GLM has been cited by CNN, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Associated Press, United Press International, Knight-Ridder, USAToday, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Charlotte Observer, Minneapolis Star Tribune, San Jose Mercury, New York Post, NPR, FoxNews, ABC, NBC, CBS, ChinaNews, The National Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The BBC, the Australian Braodcasting Company, The Canadian Broadcasting Company, The Cape Town Argus, El Pais (Madrid), The Daily Mail (Scotland), The Hindustan Times, The Gulf News (Qatar), and various electronic and print media on six continents. The GLM is supported by a worldwide assemblage of linguists, professional wordsmiths, and bibliophiles to help monitor the latest trends in the evolution (and demise) of language, word usage and word choices, and their impact on the various aspects of culture.
Our Products
If There’s a Trend, There’s MediaBuzz; If There’s a Narrative, There’s Narrative Tracker
The Global Language Monitor tracks the frequency of words and phrases in social media, on the Internet and blogosphere and the global print and electronic media, as well as accessing proprietary databases (such Factiva).
Our methodologies create actionable intelligence that can be used for brand analysis, product positioning, alternatives to focus groups, colleges and universities. Our main services include TrendTopper MediaBuzz and Narrative Tracker (click on the icons above for more information on our two services).
Once a keyword base index is created (including selected keywords, phrases, ‘excluders’ and ‘penumbra’ words), ‘timestamps’ and a ‘media universe’ are determined.
The PQI is a weighted Index, factoring in: Long-term trends, Short-term changes, Momentum, and Velocity. As such it can create ‘signals’ that can be used in a variety of applications.
There are two differing PQIs. When analyzing words and phrases in political contexts, GLM uses the Political-sensitivity Quotient Index; when analyzing words and phrases in any other context, GLM uses a slightly different Predictive Quantities Indicator.
The New York Times: The Power of Words features the Global Language Monitor and the PQ Indicator
back on January 29, 2006. Click here. This seminal article, using GLM’s methodologies analyzed the potential for a real estate crashed some eighteen months before the Global Economic restructuring.
About Paul JJ Payack
Paul JJ Payack has served as a senior executive of three Fortune 500 high technology companies, as well as numerous Silicon Valley start-ups and re-starts. Currently, GLM’s President and Chief Word Analyst, he also was the founding president of yourDictionary.com. These two language sites attract millions of page views a month. Payack taught scientific and technological communications and other forms of expository writing at the University of Massachusetts, and has lectured at the University of Texas, Babson College, and many others including the Federal Reserve Bank, GM/Hughes Aircraft. Payack studied philosophy and psychology at Bucknell University and was graduated from Harvard University (where he studied dead languages, comparative, and fine arts). He currently resides in Austin, Texas with his wife, Millie, and family.
Contact Payack directly: pauljjpayack@gmail.com
As a word analyst, Payack provides trend analysis, analytics, and narrative tracking to industry, educational institutions, as well as to the global media.
Payack first announced the Top Words of the Year, WOTY(tm) back in 2000. The history of the Top Words of the Year from 2000 to present can he found here.
Worldwide Media
GLM’s media analytics have been cited by CNN, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Associated Press, United Press International, Knight-Ridder, USAToday, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, The Charlotte Observer, Minneapolis Star Tribune, San Jose Mercury, New York Post, NPR, FoxNews, ABC, NBC, CBS, ChinaNews, The National Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The BBC, the Australian Braodcasting Company, The Canadian Broadcasting Company, The Cape Town Argus, El Pais (Madrid), The Daily Mail (Scotland), The Hindustan Times, The Gulf News (Qatar), and various electronic and print media on six continents.