Parole de présidents (1958–2022)
Words of French presidents (1958–2022)
Author(s): Dominique Labbé, Jacques SavoySubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Political Sciences, Communication studies, Politics and communication
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: stylometry; French president; characteristic vocabulary; part-of-speech; sequences of words (n-gramme); intertextual distance between authors
Summary/Abstract: Over the past sixty-six years, eight presidents successively headed the Fifth French Republic (de Gaulle, Pompidou, Giscard d’Estaing, Mitterrand, Chirac, Sarkozy, Hollande, Macron). After presenting the corpus of their speeches – 9,202 texts and more than 20 million labelled words – the style of each of them will be characterized by their vocabulary (lemmas and part-of-speech). A deeper analysis reveals the typical sequences of each tenant of the Elysée. Based on an intertextual distance between all presidential speeches, a synthesis can be drawn reflecting the similarities and differences between presidents.
Journal: Romanica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 25/2025
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 229-241
- Page Count: 13
- Language: French
