What is it about?
The present paper merges (Critical) Discourse Analysis theory and Corpus Linguistic tools in order to sudy European Parliament speeches in English. The paper resorts to the European Comparable and Parallel Corpus of Parliamentary Speeches Archive (ECPC), compiled at the Universitat Jaume I (Castellón, Spain). ECPC is examined along synchronic and diachronic lines, with quantitative and qualitative methods, within an inductive study that commutes from the micro-text to the macro-context.
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Why is it important?
There are not too many Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) studies performed with Corpus Linguistic tools. The quantitive/qualitative viewpoint this offers comes to complement other solid and rigorous CDA methods.
Perspectives
I believe there are at least the following reasons to read this paper: 1) It departs from Montesano Montessori's understanging of Laclau and Mouffe (1985). The latter approaches discourse in a very flexible, dynamic manner, worth considering wthin CDA. 2) It uses Corpus Linguistic tools to explore quantative data stemming from the EP. 3) It uses Corpus Linguistic tools to identify linguistic items that are prone to set off interesting qualitative discussion. 4) It tackles data from a synchronic and diachronic persepctives.
Professor MARIA CALZADA PEREZ
Universitat Jaume I
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This page is a summary of: Five turns of the screw, Journal of Language and Politics, April 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/jlp.15020.cal.
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