Korpusy językowe i wybrane lingwistyczne narzędzia cyfrowe w badaniach nad funkcjonowaniem pojęć wyrażanych językowo w dyskursie publicznym – casus prawo

Abstract

In this contribution, I discuss the concept expressed by the lexeme law. It belongs to the thematic field of the human in society and it is a graceful research topic, owing to which we can see the transformations in the perception of the real-life phenomena behind this concept. On the basis of the corpus data, I show the frequency of this textual expression and its distribution over time. I have excerpted the following corpora: nkjp, Monco.pl, Corpus of Parliamentary Discourse and “Odkrywka” (a corpus of 23 billion Polish words from 1800 to the present day). I further analysed the contexts of the use of the word extracted from the above-mentioned corpora using several selected clarin tools (e.g. Sentemo, Sound Analyser, cat, topic (i.e. thematic modelling), respa (keyword searcher)). The obtained results – in terms of word frequency and emotional and thematic saturation of the tests – were used to reconstruct the communicological and pragmalinguistic embedding of these words (realising a given concept) in the contemporary Polish public discourse, taking into account the (sub)parliamentary discourse.