"First, I’m a Female Politician, Not a Male One, and Second …”
A Corpus Approach to Parliamentary Discourse Research
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https://doi.org/10.51663/pnz.61.1.07Keywords:
parliamentary proceedings, parliamentary corpora, language and gender, digital humanitiesAbstract
This tutorial shows how corpora can be used to investigate language use and communication practices in a specialized socio-cultural context of political discourse in order to explore socio-cultural phenomena. We will demonstrate the potential of a richly annotated diachronic corpus of Slovenian parliamentary debates for investigating the characteristics and dynamics of the representation of women and their language use in the Slovenian Parliament.
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