Exploring manipulative rhetorical choices in Nigerian political speeches

Measuring Ideological Proportions in Political Speeches

We seek to measure political candidates’ ideological positioning from their speeches. To accomplish this, we infer ideological cues from a corpus of political writings annotated with known ideologies. We then represent the speeches of U.S. Presidential candidates as sequences of cues and lags (filler distinguished only by its length in words). We apply a domain-informed Bayesian HMM to infer th...

Topic Signatures in Political Campaign Speeches

Highlighting the recurrence of topics usage in candidates speeches is a key feature to identify the main ideas of each candidate during a political campaign. In this paper, we present a method combining standard topic modeling with signature mining for analyzing topic recurrence in speeches of Clinton and Trump during the 2016 American presidential campaign. The results show that the method ext...

The Rhetorical Phronimos: Political Wisdom in Postmodernity

Lexical Analysis of US Political Speeches

This article describes a US political corpus comprising 245 speeches given by senators John McCain and Barack Obama during the years 2007–2008. We present the main characteristics of this collection and compare the common English words most frequently used by these political leaders with ordinary usage (Brown corpus). We then discuss and compare certain metrics capable of extracting terms best ...

critical discourse analysis of two political speeches in light of bakhtins dialogism

چکیده گفتگوگری باختین نظریه ای است که به تفاوت ها احترام گذاشته و گفتگو را ارج می نهد. رشته های مختلف علوم انسانی همواره از این نظریه بهره جسته اند. با وجود این تنها مطالعات اندکی در زمینه تجزیه و تحلیل نقادانه کلام به نظریه گفتگوگری پرداخته اند. پنداشت تحقیق حاضر بر آن است که احترام به حقوق دیگران از طریق فراهم آوردن شرایط یکسان برای بیان نظریات مختلف یکی از مهمترین مشترکات تحلیل انتقادی گفتم...