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

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https://doi.org/10.18364/rc.v1i60.446

Mots-clés :

Collocation, semantic prosody, politics, dialogism, corpus linguistics.

Résumé

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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Biographie de l'auteur-e

Pedro Guilherme, Universidade da Beira Interior

doutorou-se em Letras pela Universidade da Beira Interior, onde é Professor Auxiliar Convidado. Leciona atualmente nos cursos de Estudos Portugueses e Espanhóis e Marketing. É nesta área que foca a sua investigação: é investigador do LabCom e tem, com Paulo Osório, um livro editado (A Prosódia Semântica em Português Europeu - Estatuto e definição de um fenómeno lexical e gramatical), publicando também em revistas da especialidade. Dedica-se igualmente aos estudos culturais, entrosando-os amiúde com metodologias atinentes à linguística.

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2020-12-05

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2021: Número 60

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