Other models map how language is characteristically used when people are speaking about specific subject areas or tasks — when discussing, say, physics, medicine or art history, or when asking for driving directions or restaurant reservations.
Pain associated with inflammation of the pleura is characteristically felt when a deep breath is taken.
The term most characteristically employed, when the cult of the uniform is celebrated, is "heroes".
There are disconcerting inaccuracies: Mr Hughes seems to think polenta is characteristically Roman when in fact it is quintessentially northern.
Roger Ailes, then a Republican political consultant, was characteristically blunt when he told us: "If you didn't like '88, you're going to hate '92".
Either way, the most excitement has been generated by Pink Floyd's mammoth versions of their 70s albums, not least because the quartet have hitherto been characteristically reserved when it comes to the "previously unreleased" tracks lurking in their vaults.
The book argues that Diana could be helpful to Mosley by forming close contacts in Hitler's circle, and that she was characteristically oblivious when it came to warmongering in the wind.
She is characteristically direct: "When I was younger I saw Ariadne and I thought, 'Who is that boring woman sitting on that rock?'" It was Antonio Pappano, whose singer-persuading abilities are fabled, who changed her mind.
The man who sent out more winners than any other trainer in 2009 is a Scot by birth, but his no-nonsense approach is more befitting his Yorkshire base and he is characteristically forthright when it comes to those behind Racing For Change, the project the British Horseracing Authority hope will lead the sport out of the wilderness.
Mr. Thompson has been characteristically vague when it comes to detailing a strategy to combat the looming crisis, although in a recent interview with The Washington Post he said he would have opposed the recent prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients, calling it "a $17 trillion add-on to a program that's going bankrupt".
