“The word expired when that world awoke.” New Challenges for Research with Large Text Corpora and Corpus-Based Discourse Studies in Totalitarian Times

Hanno Biber


Abstract
In the following poster proposal a report will be given on the prospects of a promising corpus project initiated by one of the large digital text corpora hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences. First, the resources of the AAC-Austrian Academy Corpus, that has been founded in 2001, which is one of the very valuable examples of digital diachronic text corpora suitable for corpus-based discourse studies and lexicography based upon historical sources, can be used as a basis for trying to answer new questions concerning the challenges for doing linguistic research with large digital text corpora in the context of studying totalitarian language use. The questions, as well as the chances and limits of such an approach, have very obvious actual references to the historic events unfolding today as well as a clearly historical dimension, precisely because the digital text sources that have been created to analyse the German language use of the Nazi-period from 1933 to 1945 can be understood as a model to deal with related questions of contemporary language use, particularly in the context of the new war of extermination of Russia in Ukraine of the year 2022 and how it is represented in contemporary media.
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2022.cmlc-1.6
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Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC-10)
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June
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Piotr Banski, Adrien Barbaresi, Simon Clematide, Marc Kupietz, Harald Lüngen
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CMLC
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European Language Resources Association
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32–35
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Hanno Biber. 2022. “The word expired when that world awoke.” New Challenges for Research with Large Text Corpora and Corpus-Based Discourse Studies in Totalitarian Times. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC-10), pages 32–35, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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