Contrastive analysis of keywords in discourses: intégration and integration in French and German discourses about migration

Schroeter, M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9636-245X and Veniard, M. (2016) Contrastive analysis of keywords in discourses: intégration and integration in French and German discourses about migration. International Journal of Language and Culture, 3 (1). pp. 1-33. ISSN 2214-3157 doi: 10.1075/ijolc.3.1.01sch

Abstract/Summary

This article suggests a theoretical and methodological framework for a systematic contrastive discourse analysis across languages and discourse communities through keywords, constituting a lexical approach to discourse analysis which is considered to be particularly fruitful for comparative analysis. We use a corpus assisted methodology, presuming meaning to be constituted, revealed and constrained by collocation environment. We compare the use of the keyword intégration and Integration in French and German public discourses about migration on the basis of newspaper corpora built from two French and German newspapers from 1998 to 2011. We look at the frequency of these keywords over the given time span, group collocates into thematic categories and discuss indicators of discursive salience by comparing the development of collocation profiles over time in both corpora as well as the occurrence of neologisms and compounds based on intégration/Integration.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/47347
Identification Number/DOI	10.1075/ijolc.3.1.01sch
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > German Arts, Humanities and Social Science > Language Text and Power
Publisher	John Benjamins
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