Not my president: how names and titles frame political figures
- Naming and titling have been discussed in sociolinguistics as markers of status or solidarity. However, these functions have not been studied on a larger scale or for social media data. We collect a corpus of tweets mentioning presidents of six G20 countries by various naming forms. We show that naming variation relates to stance towards the president in a way that is suggestive of a framing effect mediated by respectfulness. This confirms sociolinguistic theory of naming and titling as markers of status.
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| Author: | Esther van den Berg, Katharina Korfhage, Michael Wiegand, Josef Ruppenhofer |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-90191 |
| URL: | https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-2101 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-950737-04-8 |
| Parent Title (English): | Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science. June 6, 2019 Minneapolis, USA |
| Publisher: | The Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Place of publication: | Stroudsburg, PA, USA |
| Editor: | Svitlana Volkova, David Jurgens, Dirk Hovy, David Bamman, Oren Tsur |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2019 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2019/07/03 |
| Publicationstate: | Veröffentlichungsversion |
| Reviewstate: | Peer-Review |
| Tag: | Naming; Titling |
| GND Keyword: | Benennung; Frame-Semantik; Name; Politiker; Präsident; Social Media |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 6 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 400 Sprache, Linguistik |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Computerlinguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Soziolinguistik |
| Program areas: | Pragmatik |
| Program areas: | Digitale Sprachwissenschaft |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |