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Charting the semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates spanning two hundred years: A study of parliamentary language using corpus linguistic methods and automated semantic tagging

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Charting the semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates spanning two hundred years: A study of parliamentary language using corpus linguistic methods and automated semantic tagging. / Demmen, Jane Elizabeth; Jeffries, Lesley; Walker, Brian.
Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse. ed. / Michael Kranert; Geraldine Horan. John Benjamins, 2018. p. 81-104 (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture).

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Demmen, JE, Jeffries, L & Walker, B 2018, Charting the semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates spanning two hundred years: A study of parliamentary language using corpus linguistic methods and automated semantic tagging. in M Kranert & G Horan (eds), Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse. Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, John Benjamins, pp. 81-104. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.80.04dem

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Demmen, J. E., Jeffries, L., & Walker, B. (2018). Charting the semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates spanning two hundred years: A study of parliamentary language using corpus linguistic methods and automated semantic tagging. In M. Kranert, & G. Horan (Eds.), Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse (pp. 81-104). (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.80.04dem

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Demmen JE, Jeffries L, Walker B. Charting the semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates spanning two hundred years: A study of parliamentary language using corpus linguistic methods and automated semantic tagging. In Kranert M, Horan G, editors, Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse. John Benjamins. 2018. p. 81-104. (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture). doi: 10.1075/dapsac.80.04dem

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Demmen, Jane Elizabeth ; Jeffries, Lesley ; Walker, Brian. / Charting the semantics of labour relations in House of Commons debates spanning two hundred years : A study of parliamentary language using corpus linguistic methods and automated semantic tagging. Doing Politics: Discursivity, performativity and mediation in political discourse. editor / Michael Kranert ; Geraldine Horan. John Benjamins, 2018. pp. 81-104 (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture).

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