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Exploring Language and Society with Big Data : Parliamentary Discourse Across Time and Space

Kotze, Haidee [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender] ; Tyrkkö, Jukka [Mitwirkende/Mitwirkender]

1st ed.

Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023 [©2023]

1 online resource (387 pages)

Englisch

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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.

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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 -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- References -- Chapter 2 Salient differences between Australian oral parliamentary discourse and its official written records -- 1. Introduction -- 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 -- References -- Chapter 3 Hansard at Huddersfield -- 1. Introduction -- 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) -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and methods -- 3. From the century of emigration to the century of immigration.