Discourse Community Analysis: Sense ...
Document type :
Communication dans un congrès avec actes
Title :
Discourse Community Analysis: Sense Construction vs Non-Sense Construction
Author(s) :
Mustafa, Widad [Auteur]
Groupe d'Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et COmmunication - ULR 4073 [GERIICO ]

Groupe d'Études et de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Information et COmmunication - ULR 4073 [GERIICO ]
Conference title :
10Th Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) - The Role of Culture, Identity and International Collaboration
Conference organizers(s) :
International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)
City :
Montréal
Country :
Canada
Start date of the conference :
2008-08-05
Journal title :
Proceedings of the 10Th Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) - The Role of Culture, Identity and International Collaboration
Publication date :
2008
English keyword(s) :
political discourse analysis
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sciences de l'information et de la communication
English abstract : [en]
The proposal examines the nature of the political discourse of international organizations(IMF , world Bank , the UN , European Union , African Union , The Arab League, etc.). Thestudy originates from a fundamental paradox: ...
Show more >The proposal examines the nature of the political discourse of international organizations(IMF , world Bank , the UN , European Union , African Union , The Arab League, etc.). Thestudy originates from a fundamental paradox: how can we use the same descriptive linguistictools which we use in analyzing the production of sense for the production of non-sensecharacterizing this type of discourse? The corpus analyzed is a collection of texts producedby the African Union. The high frequency of words and terms occurring in this type ofproduction contributes in loosing their meaning which is contrary to the appreciation of termsoccurring in an expert discourse for information retrieval or lexical resources purposes wherethe high frequency of a term consolidates its belonging to a specific field of knowledge. Howcan this paradox be explained? The full paper will report on the results of our analysis.Show less >
Show more >The proposal examines the nature of the political discourse of international organizations(IMF , world Bank , the UN , European Union , African Union , The Arab League, etc.). Thestudy originates from a fundamental paradox: how can we use the same descriptive linguistictools which we use in analyzing the production of sense for the production of non-sensecharacterizing this type of discourse? The corpus analyzed is a collection of texts producedby the African Union. The high frequency of words and terms occurring in this type ofproduction contributes in loosing their meaning which is contrary to the appreciation of termsoccurring in an expert discourse for information retrieval or lexical resources purposes wherethe high frequency of a term consolidates its belonging to a specific field of knowledge. Howcan this paradox be explained? The full paper will report on the results of our analysis.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Peer reviewed article :
Oui
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
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