在线对话的几何结构与冲突性言论的因果前因
The geometry of online conversations and the causal antecedents of conflictual discourse
AI总结：
本文研究了在线对话中冲突性语言的因果因素，通过分析时间、对话结构等特征，揭示了回复语气和情感框架的趋同现象。
摘要：
本文研究了冲突性语言的因果前因以及与气候变化相关的在线线程对话中的交互几何结构。我们采用三种标注维度，通过LLM提示和平均推断，捕捉话语冲突的互补方面（如立场：同意与不同意；语气：攻击性与尊重；情感与事实框架），并利用线程在线论坛的数据，研究这些维度如何响应时间、对话和树状结构特征。我们显示，如文献所建议，线程中连续帖子之间的时间延迟越长，回复越加尊重，而相对于父帖子的更长时间延迟则与略微较少的分歧但更多情感（较少事实）语言相关。其次，我们表征与局部对话环境的一致性，并发现向更早的兄弟帖子回复的父帖子平均立场、语气和情感框架有强烈趋同，且父帖子效果通常强于兄弟效果。我们进一步表明，早期分支级响应条件这些趋同动态，即父-子立场趋同因分支是否以同意或不同意的态度发起而被放大或减弱。这些影响在文明相关维度（攻击性与尊重、分歧与同意）中大多是加法的，而在情感与事实框架中则存在显著交互：与父帖子情感性的趋同在较早的兄弟帖子同样趋同时被放大。
英文摘要：
This article investigates the causal antecedents of conflictual language and the geometry of interaction in online threaded conversations related to climate change. We employ three annotation dimensions, inferred through LLM prompting and averaging, to capture complementary aspects of discursive conflict (such as stance: agreement vs disagreement; tone: attacking vs respectful; and emotional versus factual framing) and use data from a threaded online forum to examine how these dimensions respond to temporal, conversational, and arborescent structural features of discussions. We show that, as suggested by the literature, longer delays between successive posts in a thread are associated with replies that are, on average, more respectful, whereas longer delays relative to the parent post are associated with slightly less disagreement but more emotional (less factual) language. Second, we characterize alignment with the local conversational environment and find strong convergence both toward the average stance, tone and emotional framing of older sibling posts replying to the same parent and toward those of the parent post itself, with parent post effects generally stronger than sibling effects. We further show that early branch-level responses condition these alignment dynamics, such that parent-child stance alignment is amplified or attenuated depending on whether a branch is initiated in agreement or disagreement with the discussion's root message. These influences are largely additive for civility-related dimensions (attacking vs respectful, disagree vs agree), whereas for emotional versus factual framing there is a significant interaction: alignment with the parent's emotionality is amplified when older siblings are similarly aligned.
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