Teilprojekt C04

Metapher und soziale Positionierung in religiösen Online-Foren

Das Projekt analysiert religiöse Metaphern in Online-Foren-Threads aus religionswissenschaftlicher und computerlinguistischer Perspektive. Drei Fragen stehen im Mittelpunkt: (1) Welche expliziten sprachlichen Marker für Bedeutungsaushandlung und nicht-wörtliche Bedeutung lassen sich in religiösen Online-Foren finden? (2) Wie wird metaphorische Sprache und Bedeutung im Forum offen und verdeckt ausgehandelt? (3) (Wie) werden Metaphern verwendet, um religiösen Sinn und Gruppenzugehörigkeit in Online-Foren zu instanziieren? Die Analyse stützt sich auf öffentlich zugängliche Forenbeiträge.

Publikationen

• Artemov, Nikita, Elsa Kueppers, Sebastian Reimann, Lina Rodenhausen, and Alexandra Wiemann. 2024. Taking MIPVU Further Around the World—And Through the Ages: MIPVU for Religion-Related Texts: Challenges and Benefits. Metaphor Papers 9. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.299.
• Dipper, Stefanie, and Frederik Elwert. 2024. Annotating Metaphorical Mappings: An Implementation of Steen’s Five Step Method. Metaphor Papers 11. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.258.
• Elwert, Frederik. 2025. “God is like a Zookeeper: Metaphor Use in Religious Online Forums.” In Professions as Religious Metaphors, edited by Frederik Elwert. Metaphor Papers 25. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.434.515.
• Jurczyk, Thomas, Roman Seidel, Adrian Bernhard, Tatjana Scheffler, and Johann Buessow. 2025. “Text Mining Tafsir: Compilation and Preliminary Explorations of a Curated Corpus of 80 Qurʾanic Commentaries.” Journal of Digital Islamicate Research 3 (1): 97–167. https://doi.org/10.1163/27732363-bja00010.
• Reimann, Sebastian, and Tatjana Scheffler. 2024a. “When Is a Metaphor Actually Novel? Annotating Metaphor Novelty in the Context of Automatic Metaphor Detection.” In Proceedings of the 18th Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW-XVIII), edited by Sophie Henning and Manfred Stede, 87–97. St. Julians, Malta: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2024.law-1.9/.
• Reimann, Sebastian, and Tatjana Scheffler. 2024b. “Metaphors in Online Religious Communication: A Detailed Dataset and Cross-Genre Metaphor Detection.” In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), edited by Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, and Nianwen Xue, 11236–46. Torino, Italia: ELRA and ICCL. https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.982/.
• Reimann, Sebastian, and Tatjana Scheffler. 2025a. “The Struggles of Large Language Models with Zero- and Few-Shot (Extended) Metaphor Detection.” Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics 38 (2): 97–109. https://doi.org/10.21248/jlcl.38.2025.287.
• Reimann, Sebastian, and Tatjana Scheffler. 2025b. “Using Large Language Models to Perform MIPVU-Inspired Automatic Metaphor Detection.” In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-Angle II), edited by Giulia Rambelli, Filip Ilievski, Marianna Bolognesi, and Pia Sommerauer, 10–21. Vienna, Austria: Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2025.analogyangle-1.2.
• Rodenhausen, Lina. 2024. “‘Mutter, Vater, Kind’. Ressourcenarme Automatische Metaphernverarbeitung für Religionswissenschaftliche Fragestellungen.” February 21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10698475.
• Rodenhausen, Lina. 2025. “Disentangling ‘Polarization in Religion.’” Frontiers in Political Science 6 (January). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2024.1492172.
• Rodenhausen, Lina. 2025. “’Selig seid ihr, wenn euch die Menschen um meinetwillen schmähen und verfolgen‘ – Minderheitskonstruktionen progressiver und konservativer Christ:innen auf Reddit.” In Konstellationen religiöser Minderheiten und Mehrheiten in pluralen Gesellschaften, edited by Sarah J. Jahn and Sabrina Weiß. Bielefeld: transcript.

Vorträge

• Elwert, Frederik: Religious Studies and the Two Cultures of Digital Humanities. Workshop Big Data, Social Media, and the Study of Religion, 01.04.2022, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: Religious Online Forums and Metaphors about the Relationship with God. CERES Colloquium, 02.05.2022, Bochum, Germany.
• Elwert, Frederik: Data Management in the Humanities at CERES and RUB. Workshop Managing Research Data. An International Exchange of Experience, 11.05.2022, Bochum, Germany.
• Elwert, Frederik: Social Metaphors of Religion and Digital Research Methods. Workshop Breaking New Ground in the Study of Religion, 18.05.2022, Kraków, Poland.
• Rodenhausen, Lina and Sebastian Reimann: Capturing the Thread Structure: A Modification of CMC-Core to Account for Characteristics of Online Forums. Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) conference, 12.09.-16.09.2022, Newcastle, UK.
• Reimann, Sebastian: Automatic Metaphor Detection in Online Forums with a Focus on Deliberate Metaphor. CERES Colloquium, 04.11.2022, Bochum, Germany.
• Elwert, Frederik: Cusanus, Annotation, and the Thesaurus of Religious Metaphors. The Research Infrastructure of the CRC 1475. Workshop Exploring the Cosmos: Unraveling Cusanus' Metaphors, 15.06.2023, Bochum, Germany.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: We Are All Children of God, the Father (or Mother?!) – Parent-Child Metaphors about God and Believers in Christian Subreddits. Conference of the International Society for Media, Religion, and Culture (ISMRC), 02.08.-05.08.2023, Bochum, Germany.
• Reimann, Sebastian: Towards a Definition of Novel Metaphor for Automatic Metaphor Detection. ESSLLI 2023 Student Session, 04.08.2023, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 
• Reimann, Sebastian and Tatjana Scheffler: ChrisTof: A Novel Corpus of Christian Online Forums. CMC-Corpora Conference, 14.09.-15.09.2023, Mannheim, Germany. 
• Rodenhausen, Lina: Open vs. True Christians – Austausch zu christlichen Problemstellungen auf Reddit. Conference of the DVRW, 25.09.-28.09.2023, Bayreuth, Germany.
• Reimann, Sebastian: Automatic Metaphor Detection in Online Forums with a Focus on Deliberate Metaphor. CRC’s annual meeting, 20.09.-22.09.2023, Much, Germany.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: Metaphor and Social Positioning in Religious Online Forums. CRC’s annual meeting, 20.09.-22.09.2023, Much, Germany.
• Reimann, Sebastian and Tatjana Scheffler: Introduction: Computational Approaches to Metaphor and Figurative Language. 46. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), 28.02.2024, Bochum, Germany.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: Mutter, Vater, Kind. Ressourcenarme automatische Metaphernverarbeitung für religionswissenschaftliche Fragestellungen. Conference of the Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd) 2024, 26.02.-01.03.2024, Passau, Germany.
• Elwert, Frederik: Multilingual Challenges from a Religious Studies Perspective. Conference of the Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (DHd) 2024, 26.02.-01.03.2024, Passau, Germany.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: Polarization of Christianity - A Case Study of Progressive and Conservative Subreddits. Philosophy and Religious Studies Club University of Central Arkansas, 07.03.2024, Conway, USA.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: The Integration of Computational Methods in the Study of Religion and Metaphor. Computer Science Club University of Central Arkansas, 14.03.2024, Conway, USA.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: Systematizing the Intersection of Polarization, Religion, and Social Media. Institute for Communication and Religion Seton Hall University, 19.03.2024, South Orange, USA.
• Scheffler, Tatjana: Sustainable Social Media Research: The Case of Linguistics. Long-term archiving, cataloguing, and provision of dynamic data from social media – Twitter and beyond, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. 19.3.2024, Frankfurt, Germany.
• Reimann, Sebastian: When is a metaphor actually novel?: Annotating Metaphor Novelty in the context of Automatic Metaphor Detection. Linguistic Annotation Workshop (LAW) XVIII,  22.03.2024, St. Julien’s, Malta.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: Systematizing the Intersection of Polarization, Religion, and Social Media. Workshop Digital Religion Meets Politics, 10.05.-11.05.2024, Landau, Germany.
• Reimann, Sebastian: Metaphors in Online Religious Communication: a Detailed Dataset and Cross-Genre Metaphor Detection. 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), 20.-25.05.2024, Torino, Italy.
• Reimann, Sebastian: Deliberate Metaphors in Religious Online Forums: Challenges and Possible Ways Towards their Automatic Detection. CRC’s annual meeting, 18.09.-20.09.2024, Much, Germany.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: Open vs. True Christians. Polarization in Christian Subreddits. CRC’s annual meeting, 18.09.-20.09.2024, Much, Germany.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: ’Polarisierung in Religion’ am Fall christlicher Subreddits. Workshop Orthodox, moderat, liberal? Perspektiven auf Polarisierung und Positionierung im religiösen Feld, 17.02.-18.02.2025, Bochum, Germany.
• Reimann, Sebastian: Metaphor Identification Procedure VU Amsterdam (MIPVU). Spring School Comparative Analysis of Religious Metaphors (CARMe), 17.03.-21.03.2025, Bochum, Germany. 
• Rodenhausen, Lina: Introduction to the Annotation Tool tAkita. Spring School Comparative Analysis of Religious Metaphors (CARMe), 17.03.-21.03.2025, Bochum, Germany.
• Elwert, Frederik: Deliberate Metaphor Theory: Metaphors We Communicate With. Spring School Comparative Analysis of Religious Metaphors (CARMe), 17.03.-21.03.2025, Bochum, Germany.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: Computational Text Analysis in the Study of Polarized Christian Subreddits. Conference Words in Numbers. Data-Driven Approaches to Texts in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 27.03.-28.03.2025, Essen, Germany.
• Elwert, Frederik: Where's the 'R' in Digital Humanities? Exploring the Current Intersection of Religious Studies and Digital Humanities. Conference Words in Numbers. Data-Driven Approaches to Texts in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 27.03.-28.03.2025, Essen, Germany.
• Reimann, Sebastian and Tatjana Scheffler: The Struggles of Large Language Models with Zero- and Few-Shot (Extended) Metaphor Detection. Workshop LLMFails, 08.04.-09.04.2025, Mannheim, Germany.
• Elwert, Frederik: Religious Data Management, Or: The Use of Vocabularies in Religious Studies. Workshop Re-designing the Modern Religious Bookshelf, 25.07.2025, Berlin, Germany.
• Reimann Sebastian: Using Large Language Models to Perform MIPVU-Inspired Automatic Metaphor Detection. The 2nd Workshop on Analogical Abstraction in Cognition, Perception, and Language (Analogy-Angle II). 01.08.2025, Wien, Austria.
• Elwert, Frederik: Linking Though What? Promises and Perils of Linked Data in the Study of Religion/s. IAHR 2025, 29.08.2025, Kraków, Polen.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: Open vs. True Christians. Polarisierung christlicher Reddit User:innen. Vernetzungstreffen Weltanschauliches Influencing, 15.10.-17.10.2025, Erfurt, Germany.
• Elwert, Frederik, Lina Rodenhausen, and Sebastian Reimann: Religious Metaphors at Scale: Digital and Computational Approaches to Metaphor Identification and Analysis. Conference Metaphors of Religion, 27.10.-29.10.2025, Bochum, Germany.
• Rodenhausen, Lina: We are All Children of God, the Father (or Mother)?! - Polarization in the Conceptualization of God-Human Relations. Conference Metaphors of Religion, 27.10.-29.10.2025, Bochum, Germany.