Exploring language and society with big data : parliamentary discourse across time and space / edited by Minna Korhonen, the Australian National University/Macquarie University, Haidee Kotze, Utrecht University/North-West University, Jukka Tyrkkö, Linnaeus University.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Korhonen, Minna, editor.

Kotze, Haidee, editor.

Tyrkkö, Jukka, editor.

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Conference Name:

International ICAME Conference (40th : 2019 : Université de Neuchâtel)

Series:

Studies in corpus linguistics ; v. 111.

Studies in corpus linguistics series ; volume 111

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political oratory--Data processing--Case studies.

Political oratory.

Legislative bodies--Language--Case studies.

Legislative bodies.

Corpora (Linguistics)--Case studies.

Corpora (Linguistics).

Sociolinguistics--Case studies.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 379 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Exploring Language and Society with Big Data

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Perspectives on parliamentary discourse

1. Introduction

2. Parliamentary language and corpus linguistics

3. The studies in this volume

4. A look into the future

5. Postscript

References

Chapter 1 Speech in the British Hansard

2. "Tolerably well"

3. Thomas Curson Hansard, Hansard, and the Hansard Corpus

4. "Fidelity is the first and indispensable requisite"

5. "Bound for the bona fides"

6. Hansard without the Hansards

7. 'Something like literary shape'

8. Conclusion

Funding

Acknowledgments

Chapter 2 Salient differences between Australian oral parliamentary discourse and its official written records

2. The 'Hansard hazard'

3. Methodology

3.1 Corpus

3.2 'Close reading' methodology

3.3 'Distant reading' methodology

4. Findings

4.1 'Close reading' results

4.1.1 Pronouns

4.1.2 Discourse markers

4.1.3 Modals

4.2 'Distant reading' results

4.2.1 Dimension score analysis

4.2.2 Analysis of individual features

5. Discussion and conclusion

Chapter 3 Hansard at Huddersfield

2. Hansard's potential for insights into governance

3. The Hansard at Huddersfield website

3.1 Aims and challenges

3.2 Data preparation

3.3 A summary of the functions on the website

3.4 Corpus tool inclusion criteria

4. Using Hansard at Huddersfield to pursue research aims

4.1 (Un)lawful assembly

4.2 Austerity14

4.3 World Wars

5. Conclusions

References

Chapter 4 Empire, migration and race in the British parliament (1803-2005)

2. Data and methods

3. From the century of emigration to the century of immigration

4. Colonial and contemporary discourses of race

5. 'Race'

6. Conclusion

Chapter 5 Leaving the EU out of the ingroup

2. Personal pronouns and the discursive construction of national identities

3. Data and methods

4. We and us in relation to the EU in British parliament

4.1 Referents of 1PP in the context of the EU

4.2 Party differences

4.3 Actions connected to the ingroup

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

Chapter 6 From masters and servants to employers and employees

2. Societal and legal developments and the master-servant institution

3.1 The Hansard Corpus as a source for linguistic analysis

3.2 Constructions studied

4. Exploring the employment relationship in the Hansard Corpus

4.1 General trends

4.2 Masters and servants in the Hansard Corpus

4.2.1 Masters in the Hansard Corpus

4.2.2 Servants in the Hansard Corpus

Notes:

The chapters in this volume derive principally from a workshop entitled "Big data and the study of language and culture: Parliamentary discourse across time and space", organised by the editors at the ICAME 40 conference on 1 June 2019, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

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Print version: Exploring language and society with big data

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9789027249517

9027249512

Publisher Number:

40032092471

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