On Monday, June 13 2022, Dr Stefan Leach presented the first results of our Leverhulme Trust project on Identity Language at the Interdisciplinary Small Group Meeting on Language and Social Cognition in Sopot.
Below you can find the abstract:
Identifying national sentiments in language
Stefan Leach, Chiara Zazzarino, and Aleksandra Cichocka
Political leaders increasingly rely on rhetoric that cues national identity and interests (e.g., ‘Make America Great’), knowing that people’s attachment to their ethnic and national groups can shape their political attitudes and engagement. To understand how this type of language operates requires a method of reliably identifying it. In this talk, we present our approach: crowdsourcing annotation-judgements about which words and phrases reflect different types of national sentiments. We also will also discuss the insights we have derived from this novel annotated corpus of 6’000 tweets (240’000 words) and 120 political speeches (280’000 words).