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Persuasion on the subreddit r⁄ChangeMyView

Research Project
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01.01.2020
 - 31.12.2026

The CMV project employs qualitative and corpus pragmatic methods to explore linguistic persuasion on the subreddit r/ChangeMyView. The data is constituted by a large corpus of submissions and comments annotated with emic community measures for persuasiveness. The initial stage of our research consists of several case studies that explore different linguistic variables within a "persuasive" corpus of interest and a "non-persuasive" reference corpus. Among other aspects, we have investigated register difference (aspects of formality), conversational moves, politeness.

Publications

Dayter, Daria and Messerli, Thomas (2022) ‘Persuasive language and features of formality on the r/ChangeMyView subreddit’, Internet Pragmatics, 5(1), pp. 165–195. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00072.day.

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Members (2)

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Thomas Messerli

Principal Investigator
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Daria Dayter

Principal Investigator