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Genre/Form: | Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Émilie L'Hôte; Maarten Lemmens; Université Charles de Gaulle (Lille / 1971-2017). |
OCLC Number: | 800687671 |
Notes: | Résumés en français et en anglais. |
Description: | 2 vol. (482, 28 p.) : ill. ; 30 cm. |
Contents: | 1, [Texte] -- 2, Résumé de thèse |
Responsibility: | Emilie L'Hôte ; Maarten Lemmens Directeur. |
Abstract:
We present an analysis of new Labour discourse in Britain over the 1994-2007 period. Our study find its originality both in its frameworks of analysis and in the interpretations it offers. Our goal is to design a copus-based cognitive analysis of political discourse. from a theoretical point of view, we combine elements of cognitive linguistics (conceptual metaphor theory, mental space theory, blending theory) and elements of discourse analysis, to offer a fresh look on efficient political discourse, while preserving a satisfying degree of objectivity in our analysis. Our study is based on a large corpus of texts and speeches from the new Labour Party, as well as on two secondary corpora composed of texts from the Conservative Party of the same time-period, and of texts from the Labour for the 1945-1993 period. In addition to detailed qualitative analyses, we present a quantitative analysis of our data with the online software WMatrix, which allows us to work on concordances, collocations and keyword analysis as defined by log-likehood scoores. We show how the elaboration of an innovative and efficient method can shed light on how political discourse works : new Labour discourse not only reflects policy and organisational changes inside the party, but it also an essential part of the strategies of renovation and of power legitimation used by the Blair-Brown team. We tackle issues of party identity, political stereotypes, and change in discourse, before opening up our study to the elaboration of a metaphorical model of contemporary political discourse.
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