A corpus study of negation and their disruptive patterns in political discourse
This paper reports the results of a quantitative study on the patterns of negation and their intersections with lexicogrammatical systems in political discourse. The corpus, made up of the 45 inaugural speeches delivered by US presidents (122,848 words), was semiautomatically tagged following the th...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) |
| Repositorio: | Letras (Santa Maria. Online) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/31175 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufsm.br/letras/article/view/31175 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Negation Inaugural political speech Lexicogrammatical disruptions Negação Discurso político inaugural Disrupções léxico-gramaticais |
| Sumario: | This paper reports the results of a quantitative study on the patterns of negation and their intersections with lexicogrammatical systems in political discourse. The corpus, made up of the 45 inaugural speeches delivered by US presidents (122,848 words), was semiautomatically tagged following the theoretical framework of systemic functional linguistics. Results show that the frequency of negation in this register is higher than that in the overall pattern of English. Besides, a recurrent interplay between negation and concession and some discoursal disruptions have been found to be statistically significant. Among them, outstand the intersections of negative polarity and modality, and no-negation and existential processes. |
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