Emilie Marie Carreau Francis


2025

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Language of the Swedish Manosphere with Swedish FrameNet
Emilie Marie Carreau Francis
Proceedings of the Joint 25th Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics and 11th Baltic Conference on Human Language Technologies (NoDaLiDa/Baltic-HLT 2025)

The manosphere is a loose group of online communities centralised around the themes of anti-feminism, misogyny, and hetero-masculinity. It has gained a reputation for violent extremism, particularly from members of the incel community. Sweden sees one of the highest volumes of online traffic to well-known incel forums in all of Europe. In spite of this, there is little information on manosphere/incel culutre in Swedish. This paper uses posts from Flashback’s manosphere subforum automatically annotated with Swedish FrameNet to analyse the language community in a Swedish context. To do so, a lexicon for the Swedish manosphere was created and terms of interest were identified in the Swedish discourse. Analysis of prominent semantic frames linked to these terms of interest presents a detailed look into the language of the Swedish manosphere.
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