Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?

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Autor(a) principal: Guilherme, Pedro
Data de Publicação: 2020
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Confluência
Texto Completo: https://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/article/view/446
Resumo: This paper aims to outline the relationship between collocation, semantic prosody and political discourse, as these linguistic phenomena may appear in utterances that subliminally carry biased views. The analyses of different corpora – namely one comprised of 2016 Donald Trump’s presidential campaign speeches – shows that there are indeed cases of collocation and semantic prosody that display a certain degree of bias in the speakers, mainly Donald Trump. The president’s collocational patterns also suggest that his discourse falls in line with his populistic stance in politics. The paper then proceeds to discuss the dialogical relationship between the studied linguistic phenomena and society.
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spelling Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?Collocationsemantic prosodypoliticsdialogismcorpus linguistics.Colocaçãoprosódia semânticapolíticadialogismolinguística de corpus.This paper aims to outline the relationship between collocation, semantic prosody and political discourse, as these linguistic phenomena may appear in utterances that subliminally carry biased views. The analyses of different corpora – namely one comprised of 2016 Donald Trump’s presidential campaign speeches – shows that there are indeed cases of collocation and semantic prosody that display a certain degree of bias in the speakers, mainly Donald Trump. The president’s collocational patterns also suggest that his discourse falls in line with his populistic stance in politics. The paper then proceeds to discuss the dialogical relationship between the studied linguistic phenomena and society.This paper aims to outline the relationship between collocation, semantic prosody and political discourse, as these linguistic phenomena may appear in utterances that subliminally carry biased views. The analyses of different corpora – namely one comprised of 2016 Donald Trump’s presidential campaign speeches – shows that there are indeed cases of collocation and semantic prosody that display a certain degree of bias in the speakers, mainly Donald Trump. The president’s collocational patterns also suggest that his discourse falls in line with his populistic stance in politics. The paper then proceeds to discuss the dialogical relationship between the studied linguistic phenomena and society. COLOCAÇÃO E PROSÓDIA SEMÂNTICA – UM INDICADOR PARA A PARCIALIDADE NO DISCURSO POLÍTICO? O presente artigo visa delinear a relação entre colocação, prosódia semântica e discurso político, uma vez que esses fenómenos linguísticos podem surgir em enunciações que veiculam, de um modo subliminar, visões tendenciosas. As análises de diferentes corpora (nomeadamente, um que consiste nos discursos da campanha presidencial de Donald Trump, em 2016), demonstra que há de facto casos de colocação e prosódia semântica que indicam um certo grau de parcialidade nos falantes, nomeadamente Donald Trump. Os padrões colocacionais do presidente sugerem também que o seu discurso é coerente com a abordagem populista à sua política. O artigo discute, depois, a relação dialógica entre os fenómenos linguísticos abordados e a sociedade. Artigo em inglês.Liceu Literário Português2020-12-05info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionArtigo avaliado pelos paresapplication/pdfhttps://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/article/view/44610.18364/rc.v1i60.446Confluência; 2021: Issue 60; 273-289Confluência; 2021: Número 60; 273-289Confluência; 2021: Número 60; 273-289Confluência; 2021: Número 60; 273-289Confluência; 2021: Número 60; 273-2892317-41531415-740310.18364/rc.v0i60reponame:Confluênciainstname:Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)instacron:UFFenghttps://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/article/view/446/270Copyright (c) 2021 Pedro Guilhermeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessGuilherme, Pedro2022-02-13T03:40:04Zoai:ojs.emnuvens.com.br:article/446Revistahttps://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rcPUBhttps://revistaconfluencia.org.br/rc/oairevistaconfluencias.psd@id.uff.br||2318-45581678-7145opendoar:2022-02-13T03:40:04Confluência - Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?
Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?
title Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?
spellingShingle Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?
Guilherme, Pedro
Collocation
semantic prosody
politics
dialogism
corpus linguistics.
Colocação
prosódia semântica
política
dialogismo
linguística de corpus.
title_short Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?
title_full Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?
title_fullStr Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?
title_full_unstemmed Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?
title_sort Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?
author Guilherme, Pedro
author_facet Guilherme, Pedro
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Guilherme, Pedro
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Collocation
semantic prosody
politics
dialogism
corpus linguistics.
Colocação
prosódia semântica
política
dialogismo
linguística de corpus.
topic Collocation
semantic prosody
politics
dialogism
corpus linguistics.
Colocação
prosódia semântica
política
dialogismo
linguística de corpus.
description This paper aims to outline the relationship between collocation, semantic prosody and political discourse, as these linguistic phenomena may appear in utterances that subliminally carry biased views. The analyses of different corpora – namely one comprised of 2016 Donald Trump’s presidential campaign speeches – shows that there are indeed cases of collocation and semantic prosody that display a certain degree of bias in the speakers, mainly Donald Trump. The president’s collocational patterns also suggest that his discourse falls in line with his populistic stance in politics. The paper then proceeds to discuss the dialogical relationship between the studied linguistic phenomena and society.
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