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Australian Politicians’ Use of Personal Pronouns

A person’s use of non-content words such as pronouns offers insights into the person’s personality. Such words are the key to understanding relationships and attention focus thus making those subtleties revealing to study. This paper aims to study pronoun use in the corpus of 175 Australian politicians. The parliament representatives’ and senators’ speeches were downloaded from the official congressional speech repository Hansard. The corpus was composed of all speeches made in 2018 because it is the last completed calendar year at the time the research was conducted. The corpus will be analysed with the text analysis software Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) calculating the degree to which the politicians use pronouns. The computational analysis results will further be analysed with the software for statistical analysis SPSS , which will be used to study potential sociodemographic differences, especially political party affiliation, in terms of party affiliation differences and pronoun usage. The analyses will be completed with a discourse analysis studying the contextual pronominal use.

Australian politicians, pronouns, contextual usage, LIWC, Hansard repository

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