Quantitative Analysis of US Presidential Inaugural Addresses

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Quantitative Analysis of US Presidential Inaugural Addresses

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The research aims to investigate several features of inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States. The goal of the paper is to observe the presidential speeches from a viewpoint of stylometry indices and to discover whether political and historical circumstances (wars, financial crisis, ideology, etc.) influence the style of inaugural addresses, analogically to findings presented byech (2014). Specifically, vocabulary richness, thematic concentration and text activity are computed. These three indices were chosen especially due to (a) their high efficiency of automatic textclassification (genre analysis, authorship attribution, etc.), (b) their independence on text length and (c)simple linguistic interpretation. The combination of the three methods allows both to investigate the style of the particular presidential speeches in powerful linguistically comprehensive view and to observe the development trends of the specific genre of inaugural addresses during the more than 200 years long history. The corpus comprises inaugural addresses of all US presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama (57 texts in total).

Název v anglickém jazyce

Quantitative Analysis of US Presidential Inaugural Addresses

Popis výsledku anglicky

The research aims to investigate several features of inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States. The goal of the paper is to observe the presidential speeches from a viewpoint of stylometry indices and to discover whether political and historical circumstances (wars, financial crisis, ideology, etc.) influence the style of inaugural addresses, analogically to findings presented byech (2014). Specifically, vocabulary richness, thematic concentration and text activity are computed. These three indices were chosen especially due to (a) their high efficiency of automatic textclassification (genre analysis, authorship attribution, etc.), (b) their independence on text length and (c)simple linguistic interpretation. The combination of the three methods allows both to investigate the style of the particular presidential speeches in powerful linguistically comprehensive view and to observe the development trends of the specific genre of inaugural addresses during the more than 200 years long history. The corpus comprises inaugural addresses of all US presidents from George Washington to Barack Obama (57 texts in total).

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AI - Jazykověda

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2016

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Glottometrics

ISSN

1617-8351

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

35

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

podzim

Stát vydavatele periodika

DE - Spolková republika Německo

Počet stran výsledku

14

Strana od-do

14-27

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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