From dogwhistles to bullhorns: Unveiling coded rhetoric with language models

J Mendelsohn, RL Bras, Y Choi, M Sap - arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.17174, 2023 - arxiv.org
Dogwhistles are coded expressions that simultaneously convey one meaning to a broad
audience and a second one, often hateful or provocative, to a narrow in-group; they are …

[HTML][HTML] All the more reasons: Mismatches in topoi in dialogue

E Breitholtz, C Howes, R Cooper - Journal of Pragmatics, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we show how topoi warrant inferences for interpreting and producing dialogue
contributions, particularly in the case of enthymemes where the conclusion does not …

[PDF][PDF] Can political dogwhistles be predicted by distributional methods for analysis of lexical semantic change?

M Boholm, B Rönnerstrand, E Breitholtz… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
We show that meaning shifts in political dogwhistle expressions (DWEs) are explained by
the expressions changing with regard to their “hidden”(in-group) and “public”(out-group) …

The utility of (political) dogwhistles–a life cycle perspective

A Sayeed, E Breitholtz, R Cooper… - Journal of Language …, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
The term dogwhistle refers to an expression conveying a message to a subset of an
audience which is not perceived by the rest of the group, in addition to a primary meaning …

[PDF][PDF] Getting beyond a joke: Accommodation and mismatches in humour

C Howes, V Maraev, E Brietholtz - christinehowes.com
To interpret utterances in interaction, we use common-sense inferences linking background
knowledge, beliefs and context to the ongoing dialogue. How a particular utterance should …