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Exploring Language and Society with Big Data
Parliamentary discourse across time and space
As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society. 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 with the aim to investigate 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.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 111] 2023. vi, 379 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 23 October 2023
Published online on 23 October 2023
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Perspectives on parliamentary discourse: From corpus linguistics to cultural analyticsJukka Tyrkkö and Haidee Kotze | pp. 1–16
- Chapter 1. Speech in the British HansardMarc Alexander | pp. 17–53
- Chapter 2. Salient differences between Australian oral parliamentary discourse and its official written records: A comparison of ‘close’ and ‘distant’ analysis methodsHaidee Kotze, Minna Korhonen, Adam Smith and Bertus van Rooy | pp. 54–88
- Chapter 3. Hansard at Huddersfield: Streamlined corpus methods and interactive visualisations to pursue research aims beyond corpus linguisticsLesley Jeffries, Fransina Stradling, Alexander von Lünen and Hugo Sanjurjo-González | pp. 89–117
- Chapter 4. Empire, migration and race in the British parliament (1803–2005)Christian Mair | pp. 118–141
- Chapter 5. Leaving the EU out of the ingroup: A diachronic analysis of the use of we and us in British parliamentary debates (1973–2015)Jenni Räikkönen | pp. 142–165
- Chapter 6. From masters and servants to employers and employees: Exploring democratisation with big dataTuro Vartiainen and Minna Palander-Collin | pp. 166–193
- Chapter 7. From criminal lunacy to mental disorder: The changing lexis of mental health in the British parliamentMinna Nevala and Jukka Tyrkkö | pp. 194–226
- Chapter 8. “The job requires considerable expertise”: Tracking experts and expert knowledge in the British parliamentary record (1800–2005)Turo Hiltunen | pp. 227–249
- Chapter 9. Processing and prescriptivism as constraints on language variation and change: Relative clauses in British and Australian English parliamentary debatesSofie Labat, Haidee Kotze and Benedikt Szmrecsanyi | pp. 250–276
- Chapter 10. Language variation in parliamentary speech in SurinameRobert Borges and Margot van den Berg | pp. 277–307
- Chapter 11. Morphosyntactic and pragmatic variation in conditional constructions in English and Spanish parliamentary discourseCristina Lastres-López | pp. 308–335
- Chapter 12. Colloquialisation, compression and democratisation in British parliamentary debatesGerold Schneider and Maud Reveilhac | pp. 336–372
- Index | pp. 373–379
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