In: Géo-Regards. Revue neuchâteloise de géographie, 2017, vol. 10, p. 11-29
This article contributes to our understanding of how foreign students are represented in Swiss political discourses. It takes a historical perspective by examining how non-European students are represented in discourses mobilized at the federal level between 1900 and 2015. Students are portrayed as being either an asset or a threat. In the first case, such representations serve to legitimize...
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Mémoire de master : Université de Neuchâtel, 2018.
Ce travail de mémoire se propose d’étudier la construction de la différence dans le discours politique en Suisse, lors d’initiatives populaires fédérales concernant le thème de l’immigration. Plus précisément, il est question de deux initiatives populaires : l’initiative « Schwarzenbach » (1970) et l’initiative « contre l’immigration de masse » (2014). En utilisant les...
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In: Géo-Regards, revue neuchâteloise de géographie (Les étudiants internationaux), 2017, vol. 10, p. 11-29
This article contributes to our understanding of how foreign students are represented in Swiss political discourses. It takes a historical perspective by examining how non-European students are represented in discourses mobilized at the federal level between 1900 and 2015. Students are portrayed as being either an asset or a threat. In the first case, such representations serve to legitimize...
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In: Actes 12e Journées internationales d’analyse statistique des données textuelles JADT 2014, 2014, p. 593-604
This paper describes a lexical study over the State of the Union addresses from 1934 until 2014. This corpus contains 81 governmental speeches uttered by thirteen presidents. This study shows that considering the most frequent lemmas does not provide useful and pertinent information. However when analyzing the part-of-speech (POS) distribution according to each president, we can see that some...
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In: Actes 10e Journées Analyse statistique des Données Textuelles JADT 2010, 2010, p. 827-838
This paper describes a lexical comparative study of Obama's speeches as candidate, and as President. Based on a corpus containing 113 electoral speeches (January to October 2008) and 168 presidential speeches (January to July 2009), we found that the most frequent words (or lemmas) do not vary with the arrival of the candidate in the White House. When inspecting the distribution of the...
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