Quantitative and linguistic characteristics of public speeches (based on the material of economic discourse)
https://doi.org/10.18384/2949-5075-2023-4-125-135
Abstract
Aim. To reveal quantitative and linguistic characteristics of public speeches of economic discourse based on the analysis of speech and interview of one of one of the key speakers at the Eastern Economic Forum (EEF-22) from the standpoint of discourse theory and quantitative linguistics.
Methodology. The study used computer semantic text analysis (SEO analysis) and discourse analysis of the interview and transcribed public speeches by the Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic A. O. Chekunkov at EEF-22 with subsequent interpretation of the results.
Results. The quantitative and linguistic features of public speeches within the economic discourse and its subspecies - the discourse of the economic forum are considered and clarified, the conclusion concerning the interdiscursive nature of the type of institutional discourse under consideration is made, the status of the economic forum discourse among other subspecies of economic discourse is determined.
Research implications Theoretical significance is in identifying the quantitative and linguistic characteristics of the public speech of the key speaker (the dominant discursive role) and in the genre of interviews in open economic discourse, namely in the framework of the multimodal discourse of the economic forum.
About the Author
N. Yarygina
Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; State University of Education
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Nadezhda Yu. Yarygina – Senior Lecture, Department of Russian Language; Postgraduate Student, Department of Language Theory, English and Applied Linguistics
Prospect Vernadskogo 76, Moscow 11945
Prospect Vernadskogo 76, Moscow 11945
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