A Corpus-Driven Analysis for Political Discourse Analysis

Abstract

According to a turn of the century, corpora are established as a modern platform of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) empirical researches (Baker et al, 2008, 221)(Caldas-Coulthard and Moon 2010. 99) (Mayaffre & Poudat, 2013, 65). A corpus-analysis discourse studies or CADS research have increasingly developed in several parts of the world for decades particularly in the US political scenarios. The research major purpose is to explore the potential US presidential speeches systematically. Three essential residents’ victory speeches conducted by three famous presidents in the 21st century were included for the political discourse analysis (PDA); the presidents of the United States, “Barack Obama”, “Donald Trump”, and “Joe Biden”. The investigation was carried out serving two crucial research questions; 1) what lexical features are emerged from PDA and 2) What kinds of powers are reflected from the US political discourses. By means of the quantitative data analyzing, potential linguistic aspects and speech acts were explained concretely. Among those corpus analysis and findings, the research discussions are instituted basing on the statistical results and descriptive aspects; speech acts and powers. The implications of this research play an important role on both the PDA in linguistic experiments and the corpus-driven analysis works extensively.