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Digital Data in English Linguistics: Language in Politics

Course description

The language used in political texts is directed towards a clearer audience than what we find in literary texts and the general attitudes and the current intentions of the author are usually also relatively clear. This makes this text type particularly apt for formal semantic and pragmatic study.

In this course, students will explore central concepts of pragmatics, such as implicatures, presuppositions, and politeness on the basis of real-live texts of political content, including speeches, tweets, blog contributions and others. We will address topics such as gender-inclusive language use, stereotypes, "dog-whistles" and others. The participants will define a research question and pursue it in the form of a small corpus-based project.

This course runs in parallel to a course on "Language and politics" at the University Mainz (lecturer: Ulrike Schneider). The participants of the two courses will present their work in a joint Mainz-Frankfurt Student workshop "Research in English Linguistics" which will take place February 15, 2020. Participation in this workshop is a mandatory course requirement.


Registration: By e-mail to the lecturer: sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de

Olat course: to be announced

BYU corpora

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Organization: IEAS
Password: (same as the olat password for this course)

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