Collocation and semantic prosody – a gauge for bias in political discourse?
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https://doi.org/10.18364/rc.v1i60.446Palabras clave:
Collocation, semantic prosody, politics, dialogism, corpus linguistics.Resumen
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.Descargas
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