“why didn’t she just leave?” An investigation into the standpoint of people on Twitter about the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial in 2022.

Abstract

Since Twitter has been widely used by billions of people, it is suitable for research and is a favorable platform that I personally use on a daily basis. The recent trial of the famous actor Johnny Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard had set a wide debate on social media and other newspapers. The trial is set to be for 6 weeks ending on the 12th of May. The case is concerning whether Johnny had really abused Amber or the other way around. The research will be discussing linguistic indications of users’ standpoints on Twitter under different hashtags #JusticeForJohnnyDepp and #JusticeForAmberHeard that support each party. And see how abuse is hardly looked at from a man’s point of view by looking at a large number of tweets and seeing what linguistic representations are being used. The research will also be discussing themes that characterize these tweets and look at the linguistic features that show the standpoint of Twitter users.