Linguistics:
1. finish the following sections (about 3-4k words)
a) Contemporary Satire: What is it (esp. in Linguistic Terms) – refer to the previous sections on implicature/irony & humour theory.
b) Satirical News: What are their effects (humour & information & opinion), what are their linguistic features that set them apart from real hard news & fake news (refer to those sections!)
c) Infodemic: Why is there an information overflow? What are the consequences? What is being done to tackle it, and, most importantly, why are not all misinformation spreading bad (i.e. how satirical news and their comedic effect have positive effect on mental health)
2. conduct a corpus analysis of linguistic features found in around 20 real hard news, 20 fake news, and 20 satirical news on the Coronavirus (around 4-5k words)
a) methodology: NLP of writer’s choice, features to look for are defined in the chapters about the language of real hard news, fake news, and your section about language in satirical news; include “Bag-of-word”, stylometrics, and sentiment analysis!
b) results: include tables & figures!
c) discussion: What makes satirical news, fake news, and real hard news distinct on the topic of Corona. Include implications, limitations & further research
