Doctor Who? Framing Through Names and Titles in German

Esther van den Berg, Katharina Korfhage, Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand, Katja Markert

Abstract
Entity framing is the selection of aspects of an entity to promote a particular viewpoint towards that entity. We investigate entity framing of political figures through the use of names and titles in German online discourse, enhancing current research in entity framing through titling and naming that concentrates on English only. We collect tweets that mention prominent German politicians and annotate them for stance. We find that the formality of naming in these tweets correlates positively with their stance. This confirms sociolinguistic observations that naming and titling can have a status-indicating function and suggests that this function is dominant in German tweets mentioning political figures. We also find that this status-indicating function is much weaker in tweets from users that are politically left-leaning than in tweets by right-leaning users. This is in line with observations from moral psychology that left-leaning and right-leaning users assign different importance to maintaining social hierarchies.
Anthology ID:
2020.lrec-1.606
Volume:
Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
Address:
Marseille, France
Editors:
Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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Pages:
4924–4932
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.606
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Esther van den Berg, Katharina Korfhage, Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Wiegand, and Katja Markert. 2020. Doctor Who? Framing Through Names and Titles in German. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 4924–4932, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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Doctor Who? Framing Through Names and Titles in German (van den Berg et al., LREC 2020)
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