L’approche co-occurrentielle, un bond qualitatif ? L’environnement lexical du lemme « député » dans les Professions de foi des candidates à la députation (1958 – 2002)

Abstract

Cooccurrence stands as a qualitative progress in the field of textual data analysis (ADT) since it statistically determines minimal meaningful contexts. Hence, ADT reasserts its hermeneutic perspective. The paper analyses the contextualization of the lemma « député » in the candidates statements for parliamentary elections during the Vth Republic. Results give historians a semantic and historical understanding of women parliamentary representationrepresentation.

Keywords

• Textual data analysis
• Co-occurrences
• Contextualization
• Political discourse
• (Women) Members of parliament.