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In:Exploring Language and Society with Big Data: Parliamentary discourse across time and space
Edited by Minna Korhonen, Haidee Kotze and Jukka Tyrkkö
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 111] 2023
► pp. 1–16

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Perspectives on parliamentary discourse

From corpus linguistics to cultural analytics

 | Linnaeus University
 | Utrecht University | North-West University
Published online: 13 November 2023
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https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.111.intro
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Parliamentary language and corpus linguistics
  • 3.The studies in this volume
  • 4.A look into the future
  • 5.Postscript
  • Notes
  • References
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