Corruption is a big issue: A corpus-assisted study of the discursive construction of corruption in Ghanaian parliamentary discourse
Domain:
natural language processingpeace and securityRecord type:
datasetpaper
Creator:
Kwa
Publisher:
Afr
Host:
The paper examines the discursive construction of corruption by Ghanaian parliamentarians. It uses as dataset a 1.9 million-word corpus of Hansards of debates and committee reports between 2005 and 2016. It draws on the frame theory and employs a corpus-assisted discourse studies (CADS) approach to explore the languageof parliamentarians (MPs) in order to investigate how Ghanaian parliamentarians frame corruption. The paper attempts to answer the question: how do Ghanaian parliamentarians construct the subject of corruption in their debates and interactions? The paper fi nds thatMPs discursively construct corruption as a huge systematic social canker that hinders socio-politico-economic development of Ghana. This suggests that stronger measures andmore formidable parliamentary commitment are needed to fi ght corruption. The paper hasimplications for parliamentarians’ fi ght against corruption in Ghana.
Similar
Parliamentary engagement in fighting corruption: a discourse on the Parliament of TanzaniaA CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF CORRUPTION AS DISCURSIVE PRACTICE IN TEJU COLE'S EVERY DAY IS FOR THE THIEFMetaphoric construction of corruption in Nigerian media discourseLanguage policy debate and the discursive construction of Tamazight in Moroccan news media: a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysisA Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of the Media LanguageHuman trafficking in nairaland digital community: A corpus-assisted critical discourse study