Students in the Department of Cognitive Science have organized a talk with Rebecca Lee, a graduate student at the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado – Boulder.
Titled, “The People Calling Others Racist Are the True Racists’: Ideology and Semantic Variation of Racist on Twitter,” Lee’s talk will be held today at 12:45 p.m. via Zoom.
In this talk, Lee will integrate cognitive sociolinguistic corpus approaches to semantic variation (Glynn 2014) with cognitive discourse analytic and linguistic anthropological approaches to ideology (Hart 2014, Hill 2008), uncovering differences in construal of the word racist by two ideologically opposed groups of tweeters.