In recent literature, one of the processes of language change which has received much
attention has been the concept of democratization of discourse (Fairclough 1992: 201,
for example), which often falls under the study of critical discourse analysis. This
approach can take full advantage of corpus linguistics (Partington & Marchi 2015: 217;
Flowerdew 2012: 175), in order to quantitatively analyze how sociocultural changes
have an impact on parliamentary discourse. The primary goal of this paper is to assess
to what extent and how these changes have been reflected in the language employed
by Members of Parliament in Britain. The time framework chosen spans from 1930 to
2000, once universal full suffrage was achieved in 1928 via the Representation of the
People Act and the Labour and Conservative parties shared the political power in the
United Kingdom.
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