Abstract
The following paper presents a formal model for the description of dogwhistles. Dogwhistles are a class of terms or expressions often used in political discourse that are used with the goal of being interpreted in different ways by different communities. The model presented here describes this phenomenon using a variation on the Social Meaning Games framework that uses probability distributions over possible interpretation functions as well as RSA/IBR reasoning.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.pam-1.3
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020)
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Gothenburg
- Editors:
- Christine Howes, Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Adam Ek, Vidya Somashekarappa
- Venue:
- PaM
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 17–25
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.pam-1.3
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Quentin Dénigot and Heather Burnett. 2020. Dogwhistles as Identity-based interpretative variation. In Proceedings of the Probability and Meaning Conference (PaM 2020), pages 17–25, Gothenburg. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Dogwhistles as Identity-based interpretative variation (Dénigot & Burnett, PaM 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2020.pam-1.3.pdf