Greetings and welcome!
I am a linguistics student currently writing a thesis for my one-year masters degree. I will mainly use this blog to organise and tag my material, which will consist of truth-value judgements from (mainly) politifact.org.
The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the kind of truth-scale that is used by fact-checkers such as politifact, how these are handled by actual people, which parameters that seem to be vital for the classification, and if a linguistic theory can be sketched around all of this.
If you’ve made your way here for whatever reason, you’re very welcome to get in tough with me about these things, or basically anything else for that matter. Just comment on the post in question, message me or submit an ask.
(If anything weird turns up here, like stupid memes or pictures of Jeff Goldblum and/or aliens, it’s probably because I meant to post them to my personal blog over at mstealady.tumblr.com (if you like those things check it out, otherwise don’t) and tumblr mobile let me down. I apologize for this in advance)
