Language and Politics in Post-Soviet Russia

Nelya Koteyko is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication, University of Leicester, UK. Her research lies at the intersection of media studies, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics. Her current work examines linguistic framing of public responses to developments in science and technology.

• 1. Introduction 2. Perspectives on Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis 3. Sociolinguistic Patterns and Discursive Stages in Post-Soviet Russia 4. Data Collection, Description, and Management 5. Analysis of Quantitative Patterns 6. A Diachronic Study of Paraphrases 7. Metaphor Use in Political Speeches 8. Concluding Thoughts