Corpus methods in the political discussion in linguistics
Abstract
The paper describes the potential of corpus methods in the political discourse studies. The paper illustrates the advantages of corpus methods by providing five examples of corpus-based studies. The data extracted from The Corpus of NOW (News on the Web) is processed in order to compare the use and linguistic categorization of the concept politics in twenty varieties of the English language. The third example covers the emergence and usage of neologisms derived from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton’s names during 2016 presidential campaign in the USA. The study of the new words can contribute to sentiment analysis of the mass-media political discourse during election campaign in the USA. Two small-size corpora - transcripts of D. Trump and H. Clinton’s 2016 election campaign speeches - are used for the analysis of the most frequent words and key words that reveal rhetorical strategies used by the two politicians to influence the audiences.
About the Authors
Olga Boriskina
Voronezh state university
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Ksenia Shilikhina
Voronezh state university
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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