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Keywords and phrases in political speeches

  • Denise Milizia
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Keyness in Texts
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Abstract

This paper analyses n-grams and concgrams in the speeches of Tony Blair and George W. Bush delivered from the beginning of 2005 till June 2007. The focus of the study is first on the single word climate, which is found to figure high in the now former Prime Minister’s keywords, and then on the cluster climate change, in that change was also picked up as key and was always found in company with climate. This work is an attempt to corroborate the assumption that phraseological combinations, in the form of n-grams and concgrams, i,e. in contiguous and non-contiguous sequences, are usually much better at revealing the “aboutness” of the text than individual words.

Abstract

This paper analyses n-grams and concgrams in the speeches of Tony Blair and George W. Bush delivered from the beginning of 2005 till June 2007. The focus of the study is first on the single word climate, which is found to figure high in the now former Prime Minister’s keywords, and then on the cluster climate change, in that change was also picked up as key and was always found in company with climate. This work is an attempt to corroborate the assumption that phraseological combinations, in the form of n-grams and concgrams, i,e. in contiguous and non-contiguous sequences, are usually much better at revealing the “aboutness” of the text than individual words.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Perspectives on keywords and keyness 1
  4. Section I. Exploring keyness
  5. Three concepts of keywords 21
  6. Problems in investigating keyness, or clearing the undergrowth and marking out trails… 43
  7. Closed-class keywords and corpus-driven discourse analysis 59
  8. Hyperlinks 79
  9. Web Semantics vs the Semantic Web? 93
  10. Section II. Keyness in specialised discourse
  11. Identifying aboutgrams in engineering texts 113
  12. Keywords and phrases in political speeches 127
  13. Key words and key phrases in a corpus of travel writing 147
  14. History v. marketing 169
  15. Metaphorical keyness in specialised corpora 185
  16. Section III. Critical and educational perspectives
  17. A contrastive analysis of keywords in newspaper articles on the “Kyoto Protocol” 207
  18. Keywords in Korean national consciousness 219
  19. General spoken language and school language 235
  20. Index 249
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.41.10mil

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Perspectives on keywords and keyness 1
  4. Section I. Exploring keyness
  5. Three concepts of keywords 21
  6. Problems in investigating keyness, or clearing the undergrowth and marking out trails… 43
  7. Closed-class keywords and corpus-driven discourse analysis 59
  8. Hyperlinks 79
  9. Web Semantics vs the Semantic Web? 93
  10. Section II. Keyness in specialised discourse
  11. Identifying aboutgrams in engineering texts 113
  12. Keywords and phrases in political speeches 127
  13. Key words and key phrases in a corpus of travel writing 147
  14. History v. marketing 169
  15. Metaphorical keyness in specialised corpora 185
  16. Section III. Critical and educational perspectives
  17. A contrastive analysis of keywords in newspaper articles on the “Kyoto Protocol” 207
  18. Keywords in Korean national consciousness 219
  19. General spoken language and school language 235
  20. Index 249
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