Adjectival Marking of Stance in Twitter: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Saudi Women's Tweets on Social Reforms

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Corpus-assisted discourse analysis reveals Saudi women's positive stances on social reforms, indicating key evaluative markers.

Saudi women generally express positive views towards recent social reforms, using adjectives to articulate their stance.
The study analyzed over 5,000 tweets, highlighting the prevalence of laudatory adjectives as stance markers.
This corpus-assisted discourse analysis sheds light on how social media can reveal public sentiment concerning reforms.
The findings suggest a new categorization for evaluative stance markers, useful for future linguistic research.

Ashwaq Alsulami (2025) studied this question.

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