The War of Words: The Language of British Elections, 1880-1914

by Luke Blaxill

The late nineteenth and early twentieth century have been widely eulogised as a "golden age" of popular platform oratory. This book considers the language of British elections - especially stump speeches - during this period. It employs a "big data" methodology inspired by computational linguistics, using text-mining to analyse over five million words delivered by Conservative, Liberal and Labour candidates in the nine elections that took place...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0861933540
• ISBN13: 9780861933549
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Royal Historical Society
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"