diachrony of the new political terrorism. Neologisms as discursive framing in Swedish parliamentary data 1971–2018
Daniel Brodén,
Leif-Jöran Olsson,
Mats Fridlund
et al.
Abstract:
This paper begins to unpack the framing of terrorism in the Swedish Parliament through distant reading and by chronologically extracting neologisms in a comprehensive corpus of transcripts of parliamentary debates. Combining language technology and historical contextualization, we find support for the argument that the term ‘terrorism’ gained much of its modern meaning around 1970. Specifically, our study points to a legislative framing of the issue of terrorism in Swedish parliamentary de… Show more
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