Research project Language and Power in Czech News Press after 1989

In my research I focus on corpus linguistics and discourse analysis of linguistic power structures, especially linguistic othering, in the Czech language.

The material I study comes mainly from the very large text data bases in the Czech National Corpus. With the help of corpus linguistic methods and some statistics, I assemble data on which discourse analytical theories can be applied.

One article from this project is openly accessible:

Income, Nationality and Subjectivity in Media Text

Project managers

Irene Elmerot
Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German

New study on equality and representation of different groups of people in the Czech news press

Irene Elmerot was admitted as a PhD student to the theme Language and Power within The Doctoral School in the Humanities in 2018. Her corpus-assisted thesis Decoding Discourse: A corpus linguistic study of evaluative adjectives and group nouns in Czech print news media (1989-2018) describes how different groups of people have been represented in Czech news media during three decades after the Velvet Revolution, using adjectives classified according to the Subjectivity Lexicon for Czech (Veselovska & Bojar 2013).

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