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On the representativeness of political corpora in linguistic research
Perrez, Julien; Randour, François; Reuchamps, Min
2018AFLiCo JET | Corpora and Representativeness
 

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Keywords :
Political discourse; Bibliometric analysis; PRISMA
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[en] There is a long tradition of linguistic research on political discourse from various theoretical perspectives, including critical discourse analysis (see among many others Fairclough 1995, Fairclough & Fairclough 2012, Wodak 1989), lexicometric approaches (see for instance Arnold 2005, Mayaffre 2005, 2016, Mayaffre & Poudat 2013, Authors 2015a) or cognitive linguistic approaches to metaphor (see among many other Charteris Black 2011, Musolff 2004, 2013, 2016 L’Hôte 2012). In these studies, political corpora collected from discourses by political elites (presidential debates, presidential addresses, public speeches,…) often appear to be overrepresented, leaving aside other forms of political discourses such as media discourse on political issues (see however Musolff 2004, 2013) or citizen discourse. As Bougher (2012 :149) posits for metaphor analysis : “while research on metaphors in political discourse has flourished in recent years, the focus on elite communication has left metaphor’s wider capacity as a reasoning tool for citizens underexplored”. This results in a certain lack of representativeness of the political domain in linguistic studies. Indeed, political discourse is not restricted to the political elites alone. Advocating a more global to political corpora, including corpora from different subdomains of the political spectrum, our talk is structured in two main parts. Firstly, we will propose a quantitative bibliographic analysis aiming at assessing what type of political corpora are frequently used in linguistic research. Secondly, on the basis of previous and current analyses of different kinds of political corpora (including citizen, media and elite discourse) we have been collecting in the framework of the ADAPOF-project (see for example Authors 2015b), we will illustrate how taking this variety of political genres into account, allows us to unravel phenomena such as conceptual alignment or metaphor circulation, related to specific political issues (in this case Belgian federalism). References Arnold, E. (2005). Le discours de Tony Blair (1997-2004). Corpus 4 | URL : http://corpus.revues.org/340. Authors (2015a). Constructing Quebec and Wallonia How political parties speak about their region. In Authors (ed), Minority Nations in Multinational Federations : A comparative study of Quebec and Wallonia, London & New-York : Rouledge, pp. 49-81. Authors (2015). Folle machine ou solide relation « living apart together » ? Le rôle des métaphores dans la perception citoyenne du fédéralisme belge. Mots. Les Langages du Politique, 109 | URL : http://journals.openedition.org/mots/22156. Bougher, L. (2012). The case for metaphor in political reasoning and cognition. Political Psychology, 33 (1), 145-163. Charteris-Black, J. (2011). Politicians and Rhetoric. The Persuasive Power of Metaphor, Houndmills : Palgrave Macmillan. Fairclough, N. (1995). Critical Discourse Analysis : the Critical Study of Language. New-York : Longman Group. Fairclough, I. & Fairclough, N. (2012). Political Discourse Analysis. A Method for Advanced Students. London & New-York : Routledge. L’Hôte, E. (2012). “Breaking up Britain”? Métaphores et discours sur la dévolution au Royaume-Uni. In Authors (eds.) Les relations communautaires en Belgique, Approches politiques et linguistiques, , Louvain-la-Neuve, Academia- L’Harmattan (Science politique), p. 161-189. Mayaffre, D. (2005). Les corpus politiques : objet, méthode et contenu. Introduction », Corpus, 4 | URL : http:// corpus.revues.org/292. Mayaffre, D. (2016). Du candidat au président : Panorama logométrique de François Hollande. Mots. Les Langages du Politique, 112 | URL : http://journals.openedition.org/mots/22479. Mayaffre, D. & Poudat, C. (2013).Quantitative Approaches to Political Discourse : Corpus Linguistics and Text Statistics. . In K. Fløttum (ed.), Speaking of Europe : Approaches to Complexity in European Political Discourse, Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins, pp. 135-150. Musolff, A. (2004). Metaphor and Political Discourse Analogical Reasoning in Debates about Europe. Houndmills : Palgrave MacMillan. Musolff, A. (2013).The heart of Europe : Synchronic Variation and Historical Trajectories of a Political Metaphor. In K. Fløttum (ed.), Speaking of Europe : Approaches to Complexity in European Political Discourse, Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins, pp. 135-150 Musolff, A. (2016). Political Metaphor Analysis : Discourse and Scenarios. London & New-York : Bloomsbury. Wodak, R. (ed.)(1989). Language, Power and Ideology : Studies in Political Discourse. Amsterdam & Philadelphia : John Benjamins.
Research center :
Lilith - Liège, Literature, Linguistics - ULiège
Disciplines :
Languages & linguistics
Author, co-author :
Perrez, Julien  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad. > Langue néerlandaise moderne et linguistique synchronique
Randour, François;  Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > ISPOLE
Reuchamps, Min;  Université Catholique de Louvain - UCL > ISPOLE
Language :
English
Title :
On the representativeness of political corpora in linguistic research
Publication date :
03 May 2018
Event name :
AFLiCo JET | Corpora and Representativeness
Event organizer :
Université Paris Nanterre
Event place :
Nanterre (Paris), France
Event date :
3-4/05/2018
Audience :
International
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