专著推荐 | 用大数据探索语言与社会跨越时空的议会话语(2023年)

作为民主国家的立法机构，议会在社会中发挥着根本性作用。因此，在议会话语中观察到的语言实践对每个人都很重要。本书汇集了语料库语言学、大数据、议会话语和历史语言学领域的领先研究人员，在大数据和语料库方法的前沿进行了真正的跨学科探索，旨在研究语言学与社会变革之间的交叉点。利用定量和定性方法，本书中包含的研究范围从关注明确的语言现象到有助于我们更广泛地理解语言和社会的主题。它开辟了新的领域，对使用大量议会话语语料库来研究议会演讲的专业语言以及有关议会所代表和治理的社会的概念和方法论挑战进行了批判性反思。

As the legislative bodies of democratic nations, parliaments play a fundamental role in society. Consequently the linguistic practices observed in parliamentary discourse are of importance to everyone. This volume brings together leading researchers in areas of corpus linguistics, big data, parliamentary discourse, and historical linguistics in a truly interdisciplinary exploration at the vanguard of big data and corpus methods with the aim to investigate the intersection between linguistic and social change. Making use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, the studies included in this volume range from a focus on explicitly linguistic phenomena to topics that contribute to our understanding of language and society more generally. It breaks new ground in its critical reflection on the conceptual and methodological challenges of using large corpora of parliamentary discourse to study both the specialised language of parliamentary speech and the societies that the parliaments in question represent and govern.