Chapter 5
Sockpuppets, Wikifants, and
Honeypots
Metaphorical patterns in digital discourses on Wikipedia talk pages
This chapter analyses the discursive construction of
collaborative text production via metaphors on talk pages of the
English, French, and German Wikipedia. The cross-linguistic study makes use
of the WikiDemoCorpus (WDC) to qualitatively reveal the source domains of
these metaphors. Situated within the framework of discourse analysis in the
tradition of Foucault (1966,
1969, 1971), the study analyses how Wikipedia authors use
metaphors to create a certain point of view in their collaborations on talk
pages. Additionally, the Wikipedia corpora available at
the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) via the Corpus Search, Management and Analysis System II (COSMAS
II) are used for exemplary quantification. Finally, the potential
of further corpus linguistics methods for metaphor identification and
analysis is discussed.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Theoretical aspects
- 3.Data and methodology
- 4.Results and discussion
- 4.1Qualitative findings in the WDC_Talk corpus
- 4.1.1Metaphors of fabulous creatures
- 4.1.2War metaphors
- 4.1.3Wikifauna and Wikiflora: Zoological and botanical metaphors
- 4.1.4Illness and addiction metaphors
- 4.1.5Handicraft metaphors
- 4.2Quantification and further potential of corpus linguistics methods
for metaphor identification
- 5.Concluding remarks
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Notes
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References
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Tools and online resources
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