News Items on 2022-2023 Elections in Four Countries with Water Metaphors

200 news items from digital media in the USA, Spain, France, and Italy, collected between 2022 and 2023. The dataset was created by ROMANO MOZO, MANUELA for analyzing wave and tide metaphors in political discourse. Items cover all ideological stances and are annotated for frequencies, collocations, mappings, elaborations, and evaluative meanings.

Use Cases

• Comparative analysis of metaphor usage across different political systems based on the four-country scope.
• Training models for metaphor detection and classification based on the described annotations for frequencies and mappings.
• Studying the evaluative meaning and framing of election results in news media based on the described analysis of elaborations and meanings.

Strengths

• Focus on a specific linguistic phenomenon (wave/tide metaphors) within a defined context.
• Multilingual coverage across four countries (USA, Spain, France, Italy) undergoing elections.
• Collection period is explicitly stated as 2022-2023.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is limited to 200 items, which may restrict statistical analysis.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

ROMANO MOZO, MANUELA via e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse.

Collection Method

Collected from digital media.

Time Range

2022-2023

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-14 21:41:36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

USA, Spain, France, Italy