La catégorisation socio-sémantique

Abstract

This paper describes some aspects of a socio-semantic categorization which has been applied to a large political discourse database. The authors discuss the idea of coding textual data before or during the process of analysis, referring to both the tradition of American content and qualitative analysis and French linguistic approaches to discourse. An empirical, paradigmatic, localized and sociologically-oriented categorization is proposed, and the example of the word « service(s) » in Canadian trade unions' discourse is presented.