Analyzing the Use of Metaphors in News Editorials for Political Framing

verfasst von

Meghdut Sengupta, Roxanne El Baff, Milad Alshomary, Henning Wachsmuth

Abstract

Metaphorical language is a pivotal element in the realm of political framing. Existing work from linguistics and the social sciences provides compelling evidence regarding the distinctiveness of conceptual framing for political ideology perspectives. However, the nature and utilization of metaphors and the effect on audiences of different political ideologies within political discourses are hardly explored. To enable research in this direction, in this work we create a dataset, originally based on news editorials and labeled with their persuasive effects on liberals and conservatives and extend it with annotations pertaining to metaphorical usage of language. To that end, first, we identify all single metaphors and composite metaphors. Secondly, we provide annotations of the source and target domains for each metaphor. As a result, our corpus consists of 300 news editorials annotated with spans of texts containing metaphors and the corresponding domains of which these metaphors draw from. Our analysis shows that liberal readers are affected by metaphors, whereas conservatives are resistant to them. Both ideologies are affected differently based on the metaphor source and target category. For example, liberals are affected by metaphors in the Darkness & Light (e.g., death) source domains, where as the source domain of Nature affects conservatives more significantly.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Künstliche Intelligenz
Fachgebiet Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung

Externe Organisation(en)

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR)
Columbia University

Typ

Aufsatz in Konferenzband

Seiten

3621–3631

Anzahl der Seiten

11

Publikationsdatum

06.2024

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja