The speeches made by the British Prime Minister (Tony Blair) from 1997 to 2004This article presents the corpus of speeches made by the British Prime Minister (Tony Blair) from 1997 to 2004. Before being included in the corpus the texts are corrected, and the spelling is standardised. It is demonstrated that this corpus opens up numerous areas of research, of which two examples are given, the main thematic and stylistic breaks that allow us to pin-point two main periods in these eight years. Fina…
Read moreThe speeches made by the British Prime Minister (Tony Blair) from 1997 to 2004This article presents the corpus of speeches made by the British Prime Minister (Tony Blair) from 1997 to 2004. Before being included in the corpus the texts are corrected, and the spelling is standardised. It is demonstrated that this corpus opens up numerous areas of research, of which two examples are given, the main thematic and stylistic breaks that allow us to pin-point two main periods in these eight years. Finally, the richness of T. Blair’s vocabulary can be measured by the use of notions of specialisation and diversity.
