@article{HruschkaAppel2023,
  author    = {Hruschka, Timon M. J. and Appel, Markus},
  title     = {Learning about informal fallacies and the detection of fake news: an experimental intervention},
  series = {PLoS One},
  volume    = {18},
  journal   = {PLoS One},
  number    = {3},
  issn      = {1932-6203},
  doi       = {10.1371/journal.pone.0283238},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-350404},
  year      = {2023},
  abstract  = {The philosophical concept of informal fallacies-arguments that fail to provide sufficient support for a claim-is introduced and connected to the topic of fake news detection. We assumed that the ability to identify informal fallacies can be trained and that this ability enables individuals to better distinguish between fake news and real news. We tested these assumptions in a two-group between-participants experiment (N = 116). The two groups participated in a 30-minute-long text-based learning intervention: either about informal fallacies or about fake news. Learning about informal fallacies enhanced participants' ability to identify fallacious arguments one week later. Furthermore, the ability to identify fallacious arguments was associated with a better discernment between real news and fake news. Participants in the informal fallacy intervention group and the fake news intervention group performed equally well on the news discernment task. The contribution of (identifying) informal fallacies for research and practice is discussed.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Kailich2022,
  author    = {Kailich, Franziska},
  title     = {The Introduction of English-induced neologisms in Spanish tweets: a case-study on covidiota},
  series = {Frontiers in Communication},
  volume    = {7},
  journal   = {Frontiers in Communication},
  issn      = {2297-900X},
  doi       = {10.3389/fcomm.2022.780340},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-274064},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {This paper intends to trace the introduction of an English-induced, COVID-related neologism, covidiota, into the Spanish language. The study is based on a corpus of tweets, starting in March 2020. It examines several specific features which mark the word as a new, unfamiliar item, such as different ways of graphical highlighting, for example. On the other hand, the paper aims to detect possible indicators of an integration of covidiota into the Spanish language use in the tweet corpus compiled for this case study.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Hesselbach2020,
  author    = {Hesselbach, Robert},
  title     = {<<Nous sommes en guerre sanitaire contre le COVID-19>> - A Corpus-based Approach of Official French, Italian, and Spanish Social Media Discourse in the Light of the Coronavirus Crisis},
  series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik},
  volume    = {6},
  journal   = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-244251},
  pages     = {45-66},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {France, Italy, and Spain are three Romance-speaking countries which - at least in Europe - have been affected to a very high degree by the consequences of the Corona pandemic. This paper examines discursive strategies on social media (Twitter and Facebook) by the three heads of government/state of the aforementioned countries - namely Emmanuel Macron (France), Giuseppe Conte (Italy), and Pedro S{\´a}nchez (Spain)- from a corpuslinguistic point of view. For this purpose, a corpus was created which contains all Twitter and Facebook messages posted by these heads of government/state from the beginning of February until the end of April 2020. By applying corpus-linguistic methods we find that all three politicians consciously use social media to sensitize, inform, and - in view of a dramatic pandemic situation - unite their respective populations behind them.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Mencke2018,
  author    = {Mencke, Johanna},
  title     = {Multimodalit{\"a}t als strategisches Framing - Die mediale Selbstinszenierung von Marion Mar{\´e}chal-Le Pen (FN) in den sozialen Netzwerken},
  series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik},
  volume    = {4},
  journal   = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik},
  issn      = {2364-6705},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-173990},
  pages     = {93-134},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {The present study focuses on Marion Mar{\´e}chal-Le Pen's self-representation on social media. Despite her youth, the niece of the party's chairwoman and granddaughter of its founder is a distinguished member of the French radical right-wing populist and nationalist party Front National. The corpus-based analysis of her digital presence on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook on which this paper is based shows a specific use of linguistic and multimodal resources as a means of strategic framing of political content. In particular, an analysis of Mar{\´e}chal-Le Pen's use of searchable hashtags and @mentions referring to different political and non-political actors reveals it as a strategy of polarization between a constructed us and a negatively connoted them.},
  language  = {de}
}