The study reported here examined the developmental antecedents of conservative versus liberal ideologies using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development and a follow-up study conducted when the sample was 18 years old. Specifically, we examined variation in conservative versus liberal ideologies at age 18 years as a fu...

Social media provides a unique platform enabling public discourse around cross-cutting ideologies. In this paper, we provide a methodological lens for studying the discourses around the controversial topic of abortion on social media. Drawing from the theoretical framework of “Critical Discourse Analysis”, we study discourse around abortion on Twitter through analysis of language and the manife...

Ideologies use for their conservation and propagation persuasive methods of communication: Rhetoric. Rhetoric is analyzed from the semiotic and logical-mathematical points of view. The following hypotheses are established: 1) Language L is a self-explanatory system, mediated by a successive series of systems of cultural conventions. 2) Connotative significances of an ideological advertising rhe...

The present special issue goes back to the online conference entitled Integrationism and Language Ideologies (March 15-20, 2021), which was organized by Policy Group of Federal University Santa Catarina in conjunction with International Association for Integrational Study Communication (IAISLC). contributions this are most part revised versions papers presented at event. also features an interv...

This article examines a Korean American comedian’s use of Mock Asian and the ideologies that legitimate this racializing style. These legitimacy depend on assumptions about relationship between communities, authentication speaker’s community membership, nature interpretive frame has been “keyed”. Specifically, her depends and, to some extent, reproduces particular ideological links race, nation...

We seek to measure political candidates’ ideological positioning from their speeches. To accomplish this, we infer ideological cues from a corpus of political writings annotated with known ideologies. We then represent the speeches of U.S. Presidential candidates as sequences of cues and lags (filler distinguished only by its length in words). We apply a domain-informed Bayesian HMM to infer th...

Mythical and religious belief systems in a social context can be regarded as a conglomeration of sacrosanct rites which revolve around substantive values that involve an element of faith. Moreover, we can conclude that ideologies, myths and beliefs can all be analyzed in terms of systems within a cultural context. The significance of being able to define ideologies, myths and beliefs as systems...