Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Political Language

When we think of politics, we think of it mainly in terms of the struggle for power in order to secure specific ideas and interests and put them into practice. This process of manifesting a political will and transforming it into concrete social action is realised first of all between political parties. In this process, language plays an important role. In fact, any political action is prepared, accompanied, controlled and influenced by language. We could easily add other verbs to this list, such as guided, explained, justified, evaluated, criticised, . . . The study of language has recently become more central to those academic disciplines concerned with politics. However, political scientists on the one hand, and linguists, or discourse analysts, on the other hand, focus on different aspects when they discuss the relationship between language and politics, and they also apply different theories and methods in doing so. Political scientists are mainly concerned with the consequences of political decisions and actions for (the history of) a society, and they may be interested in the political realities which are constructed in and through discourse.

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 2014

This chapter explores how three methods of political text analysis can complement each other to differentiate parties in detail. A word-frequency method and corpus linguistic techniques are joined by critical discourse analysis in an attempt to assess the ideological relation between election manifestos and a coalition agreement. How does this agreement relate to the policy positions presented in individual election manifestos and whose issues appear on the governmental agenda? The chapter discusses the design of three levels of text analysis applying text-as-data analysis; words-as-meaningful-data involving lexical-semantic analysis of subjectivity; and words-in-context analysis for variation in constructions of worldviews. We found that better results can be achieved for party positioning in combinations of qualitative and quantitative approaches.

LOGOS & LITTERA Journal of Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text, 2014

The language of politics is commonly studied within discourse analysis, whereby its linguistic features relating to vocabulary, grammar structures, textual and intertextual aspects are investigated using various methodologies. This paper presents an analysis of political discourse from a syntactic-semantic point of view. The corpus studied has been extracted from five. Montenegrin dailies and the analysis attempts to describe the genre as effectuated in the Montenegrin political discourse. As a result, the functions of political language are extrapolated and illustrated and its style is described in terms of intertextuality and other linguistic strategies commonly employed in political discourse. The paper aims to give a contribution to the understanding and linguistic profiling of political language.

Sixth International Conference on Social Networks Analysis, Management and Security , 2019

The paper describes a linguistic analysis performed over a corpus of Italian political speeches annotated through non-verbal tags. With the purpose to locate lexical features correlated with non-verbal phenomena, we exploited a set of electronic dictionaries of simple and compounds words and a network of Local Grammars. A Distributional Analysis of the texts has, then, been carried out in order to automatically explore the corpus.

2021

According to a turn of the century, corpora are established as a modern platform of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) empirical researches (Baker et al, 2008, 221)(Caldas-Coulthard and Moon 2010. 99) (Mayaffre & Poudat, 2013, 65). A corpus-analysis discourse studies or CADS research have increasingly developed in several parts of the world for decades particularly in the US political scenarios. The research major purpose is to explore the potential US presidential speeches systematically. Three essential residents' victory speeches conducted by three famous presidents in the 21 st century were included for the political discourse analysis (PDA); the presidents of the United States, "Barack Obama", "Donald Trump", and "Joe Biden". The investigation was carried out serving two crucial research questions; 1) what lexical features are emerged from PDA and 2) What kinds of powers are reflected from the US political discourses. By means of the quantitative data analyzing, potential linguistic aspects and speech acts were explained concretely. Among those corpus analysis and findings, the research discussions are instituted basing on the statistical results and descriptive aspects; speech acts and powers. The implications of this research play an important role on both the PDA in linguistic experiments and the corpus-driven analysis works extensively.

Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2011

This paper presents a computational method based on natural language processing (NLP) techniques for the interpretation of the political discourse. The application considers the 2009 presidential campaign in Romania. The software package, AnaDiP-2010, allows for a rapid and robust interpretation of the political language. The concept behind this method is that the manner in which individuals speak and write is an opened window towards their emotional and cognitive worlds. In other words, the vocabulary betrays the author's sensibility. By emphasizing the emotional component at the level of discourse, voters identify with the speaker, who becomes the personification of their common ideals. Our investigation is intended to give support to researchers, specialists in political sciences, to political analysts and election's staff, being helpful mainly in their social exploration of the electoral campaigns, as well as to the media, in their intend to measure reactions with respect to the developments in the political arena.

International Encyclopedia of Langiage and Social Interaction

Defining political discourse as talk and text produced in regard to concrete political issues (language in politics) or the actual language use of institutional political actors (language of politicians), this article outlines traditionally recognized and newly identified links between language and politics. After clarifying some conceptual ambiguities and elaborating the historical roots of political language research, the article surveys themes, actors, methods, data, and research goals of PDA, based on key texts and the latest studies in the field.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2022

This research is a contribution to the discourse analysis, how the author uses the discourse tools to create the macrostructure, interrelationship between knowledge and communication based on discourse macrostructure theory, guided by the Fairclough's critical discourse analysis (CDA) and mental models for the global structure which explains knowledge and psychological factors of participants by Teun A. van Dijk and (Garnham 1987; Johnson-Laird 1983; van Dijk & Kintsch 1983; Van Oostendorp & Zwaan 1994). Through the analysis, aimed to identify the author's attitude, has been reviewed the creation of discourse mental model is a direct representation of attitude from the author within mental space described by knowledge, presupposition from the situation, then understanding of the issues is people take information directed by the author's attitude and belief, also tried to find out how interviewer uses discourse tools to approach and discover the guest's attitude at all. Moreover, it examines how to create knowledge which is a base of the macrostructure and global meaning of discourse. The meaning of keywords and concepts that express the global meaning of the discourse, were weighed mathematically to determine the significant value. These top ranks of weighted words are considered as a cognitive mapping and mental model within knowledge theory and information structure theory, thus here, aimed to identify and analyze authors' opinions and attitudes in political speech.

Digital Government: Research and Practice, 2024

This study proposes a quantitative method to assess the pertinence of political language on national issues, addressing the complexity of analyzing political discourse and its relevance to citizens' concerns. Using word embeddings and linguistic models trained on Wikipedia, a "pertinence score" was developed to measure the relevance of political discourse in contexts such as the economy and health. The method was applied to the 2018 Colombian presidential election, revealing signiicant diferences in thematic pertinence between candidates. Survey validation conirmed the correlation between automatic and human scores, highlighting the model's ability to discriminate ideological positions through lexical analysis.

2020

Political Discourse Analysis" or "PDA" plays crucial roles aiming to embrace audience's attention and motivation. By means of political discourse, the constructed contexts revealed the current information of matters purposively however the PDA isn't the merely methods of how to comprehend political language being communicated. This study aims to explore the US political speeches by two historical orators. The aim of the report is to analyze the selected political speeches by Martin Luther King, and the president of the USA, Barack Obama. The research questions are: 1) what are lexical features emerged from PDA and 2) What kinds of powers are reflected from the US political discourses. The result of the descriptive analysis divulges the similarity and diversity of the linguistic elements proposed through the three linguistic aspects: 1] cohesion, 2] pragmatic, and 3] power. The important textual examination in theses selected works is the benefit for the variety of crucial linguistic elements interpreted and explained systematically. It is said that PDA directly proclaims various dimensions of political discourse.