A Comparative Analysis of the Semantic Field of ‘deception’: A Case Study Of Russian And American Imageboard Messages

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2021-03-30 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.19.1.06

Olga Lykova, D. Gordeev

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Abstract

This article uses the material of anonymous Internet forums to analyse the semantic field of deception by the instrumentality of artificial neural networks. Two major imageboards were investigated: 2ch.hk and 4chan.org, being the most popular Russian and American imageboards. For the experiment an algorithm called Word2vec was used to examine 30 million word usages for either of the languages. This analysis revealed 10 words with the greatest semantic proximity to terms from semantic fields of «deception» for Russian and American English. The results showed the tendency among native Russian imageboard users to link the concept of deception with religion and spiritual sphere, while American forum users associate deception with politics and related concepts.

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“欺骗”语义场的比较分析——以俄美图像板信息为例

本文利用匿名网络论坛的资料，借助人工神经网络对欺骗的语义场进行了分析。调查了两个主要的图像板：2ch.hk和4chan.org，它们是最受欢迎的俄罗斯和美国图像板。在实验中，一种名为Word2vec的算法被用来检查这两种语言中的3000万个单词的用法。该分析揭示了10个单词与俄语和美式英语“欺骗”语义场中的术语在语义上最接近。结果显示，俄罗斯本土的图片板用户倾向于将欺骗的概念与宗教和精神领域联系起来，而美国论坛用户则将欺骗与政治和相关概念联系起来。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.