Political Discourses of the Belgian Government (1944-1992). Political Lexicology Study ; Les déclarations gouvernementales en Belgique (1944-1992). Étude de lexicométrie politique

The thesis has two main aims. First, it is a methodological and statistical work for lexical analysis. Second, it is a study of the evolution of political discourse of government. We shows that this kind of discourses, constrained by a lot of rules, don't change during this long period because of the influence of composition of political majorities but moves essentially on political subjects trend within period of time larger than the time of a legislature. The methods used permitted to define this periods and to put in evidence their characteristics as "textual time series". The methods used... Mehr ...