Department of Linguistics
The speech that stops a nation:
Word frequencies and collocations in the Australian Government's annual budget speech (2005-2010)
The Centre for Language and Social Life at Macquarie University has released its updated linguistic analysis of the budget speeches from 2005 to 2010, incorporating the last three Costello speeches and the first three Swan speeches. The revised report includes a brief discussion of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s “great big new speech”.
Using a specialised linguistic computer program, the study measures the frequency of words and phrases, and the collocation of words. These frequencies reveal crucial aspects of the rhetorical styles of the current and the previous Treasurer.
As we found in our previous study – and perhaps against expectations – word frequencies and collocations are extremely revealing as a window into the way each Treasurer positions himself, the government, the budget, and the economy.
Click here to download our latest report [ 560kb pdf]
Click here for our original report [400kb pdf]
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