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Exploring language and society with Big Data parliamentary discourse across time and space Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö (editors)
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series
- Studies in Corpus Linguistics Series vol. 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.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (387 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam/Philadelphia John Benjamins 2023
- Summary:
- "As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society, and consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data, parliamentary discourse, and historical linguistics in a truly interdisciplinary exploration at the vanguard of big data and corpus methods for investigating the intersection between linguistic and social change. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, the studies included in this volume range from a focus on explicitly linguistic phenomena to topics that contribute to our understanding of language and society more generally. It breaks new ground in its critical reflection on the conceptual and methodological challenges of using large corpora of parliamentary discourse to study both the specialised language of parliamentary speech and the societies that the parliaments in question represent and govern"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Prelim pages
- Table of contents
- Perspectives on parliamentary discourse
- Chapter 1. Speech in the British Hansard
- Chapter 2. Salient differences between Australian oral parliamentary discourse and its official written records
- Chapter 3. Hansard at Huddersfield
- Chapter 4. Empire, migration and race in the British parliament (1803–2005)
- Chapter 5. Leaving the EU out of the ingroup
- Chapter 6. From masters and servants to employers and employees
- Chapter 7. From criminal lunacy to mental disorder
- Chapter 8. “The job requires considerable expertise”
- Chapter 9. Processing and prescriptivism as constraints on language variation and change
- Chapter 10. Language variation in parliamentary speech in Suriname
- Chapter 11. Morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation in conditional constructions in English and Spanish parliamentary discourse
- Chapter 12. Colloquialisation, compression and democratisation in British parliamentary debates
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Korhonen, Minna Exploring Language and Society with Big Data
- ISBN:
- 9789027249517
- OCLC:
- 1396194490
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