Jane Dilkes

Datos Biográficos

ID6566308
NOMBREJane Dilkes
NOMBRESJane
APELLIDODilkes
FIRMADILKES J
AFILIACIONESThe Open University
ORCID0000-0003-3307-3161
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS4
TOTAL DE CITAS0
OBRAS COMO AUTOR4
OBRAS COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2023
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • The role of metonymy in social identity

    Open AccessJane DilkesARTICLEMetaphor and the Social World2025

    In this study the role of metonymy in relation to social identity is investigated in naturally occurring internet discourse of social groups. Two Reddit subreddits banned for promoting hate based on identity are compared with two unbanned subreddits that predominantly relate to the same gender-focused concerns. It is found that metonymies to reference social identity are more prevalent in the two banned subreddits, where they represent both socia…

  • Metaphor use in depersonalization/derealization

    Open AccessJane DilkesARTICLELanguage and Cognition2024

    This study investigates the use of metaphor in the dissociative disorder depersonalization/derealization – the feeling of unreality or detachment from the senses or surrounding events. While the debilitating experience of depersonalization/derealization is prevalent, it is also under-acknowledged, such that it is often expressed through metaphor, with more typical metaphor described in diagnostic criteria. Using naturally occurring text from two …

  • Metaphor signalling constructions in discourse related to the experience of depersonalization/derealization

    Jane DilkesARTICLEMetaphor and Symbol2024

    In this study a systematic analysis of signaled metaphor is undertaken in naturally occurring discourse from an online forum relating to the experience of depersonalization/derealization, which has a specific relationship with metaphor. While it is relatively easy to locate pre-identified metaphor source terms in such large text corpora, finding singular metaphor that may express subjective experience is recognized as a difficult but important ta…

  • Rule 1

    Open AccessJane DilkesARTICLEDiscourse & Society2023Referencias: 5

    Detecting internet hate speech automatically is an important but difficult task that is recognised as ethically problematic. In comparison to typical computer science approaches, the current study focuses on psychologically meaningful aspects of language, and not on terms pre-defined as hateful. Data consists of the naturally occurring discourse of a gender critical feminist group banned from the Reddit discussion platform for promoting hate base…