Not My President: How Names and Titles Frame Political Figures
Esther van den Berg, Katharina Korfhage, Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand, Katja Markert
Abstract
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.- Anthology ID:
- W19-2101
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2019
- Address:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Editors:
- Svitlana Volkova, David Jurgens, Dirk Hovy, David Bamman, Oren Tsur
- Venue:
- NLP+CSS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1–6
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W19-2101
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/W19-2101
- Cite (ACL):
- Esther van den Berg, Katharina Korfhage, Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand, and Katja Markert. 2019. Not My President: How Names and Titles Frame Political Figures. In Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Computational Social Science, pages 1–6, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Not My President: How Names and Titles Frame Political Figures (van den Berg et al., NLP+CSS 2019)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/W19-2101.pdf