Abortion Ban in English Social Media in 2022: Pragmatic Linguistics of Online Communications

The present research featured the conflict discourse of online communication in social networks on the topic of abortion ban. The empirical base included 3,000,000 Twitter messages in English. The sampling by keywords women and abortion covered the period from May 1 to July 31, 2022, which saw an ou...

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Main Authors: Anna A. Gnedash, Veronika V. Katermina
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Published: Kemerovo State University 2022-12-01
Series:Виртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети
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description The present research featured the conflict discourse of online communication in social networks on the topic of abortion ban. The empirical base included 3,000,000 Twitter messages in English. The sampling by keywords women and abortion covered the period from May 1 to July 31, 2022, which saw an outburst of online and offline civic activities regarding some national anti-abortion policies. The resulting web corpus of network linguistic data (datasets) was subjected to multidimensional analysis using such methods as Data Science, mathematical modeling, relational sociology, corpus analysis, discourse analysis, etc. All these procedures combined resulted in a multidimensional comprehensive analysis of the simulated English asynchronous multimodal discursive field in Twitter. The models made it possible to visualize online communications in social networks, as well as to describe the discourse of online communication between pro-choice and pro-life. The authors analyzed the pragmatic potential of network communities on the current political agenda. The method might help to identify the conflict potential that can evolve from online communication into offline socio-political actions.
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spelling doaj-art-5079494c8b8c44d9909c76b2d7bbebce2025-08-20T02:26:09ZengKemerovo State UniversityВиртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети2782-47992782-48022022-12-011417217810.21603/2782-4799-2022-1-4-172-178Abortion Ban in English Social Media in 2022: Pragmatic Linguistics of Online CommunicationsAnna A. Gnedash0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3516-107XVeronika V. Katermina1https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9141-9867Kuban State UniversityKuban State UniversityThe present research featured the conflict discourse of online communication in social networks on the topic of abortion ban. The empirical base included 3,000,000 Twitter messages in English. The sampling by keywords women and abortion covered the period from May 1 to July 31, 2022, which saw an outburst of online and offline civic activities regarding some national anti-abortion policies. The resulting web corpus of network linguistic data (datasets) was subjected to multidimensional analysis using such methods as Data Science, mathematical modeling, relational sociology, corpus analysis, discourse analysis, etc. All these procedures combined resulted in a multidimensional comprehensive analysis of the simulated English asynchronous multimodal discursive field in Twitter. The models made it possible to visualize online communications in social networks, as well as to describe the discourse of online communication between pro-choice and pro-life. The authors analyzed the pragmatic potential of network communities on the current political agenda. The method might help to identify the conflict potential that can evolve from online communication into offline socio-political actions.social mediaonline communicationabortion lawenglish discoursetwitterpragmatic linguistics
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Abortion Ban in English Social Media in 2022: Pragmatic Linguistics of Online Communications
Виртуальная коммуникация и социальные сети
social media
online communication
abortion law
english discourse
twitter
pragmatic linguistics
title Abortion Ban in English Social Media in 2022: Pragmatic Linguistics of Online Communications
title_full Abortion Ban in English Social Media in 2022: Pragmatic Linguistics of Online Communications
title_fullStr Abortion Ban in English Social Media in 2022: Pragmatic Linguistics of Online Communications
title_full_unstemmed Abortion Ban in English Social Media in 2022: Pragmatic Linguistics of Online Communications
title_short Abortion Ban in English Social Media in 2022: Pragmatic Linguistics of Online Communications
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online communication
abortion law
english discourse
twitter
pragmatic linguistics
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