Linking Word Use and Personality Characteristics: A Contrastive Study into Parliamentary Communications of Labour Leaders Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer

Abstract

Over the past thirty years, Russian linguistic studies have noted terminological heterogeneity in the concepts of “jazykovaja lichnost” and “kommunikativnaja lichnost”, literally “linguistic personality” and “communicative personality”, however, in the field of political communication, due to the inextricable connection of political discourse with the socio-cultural, historical, or political context that constructs it, their differentiation was observed rather than interchangeability. This research seeks to characterise “kommunikativnaja lichnost”, a key concept in linguopersonology. The evidence base is parliamentary speeches of Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer, previous and current leaders of the Labor Party of Great Britain. The results of a qualitative analysis have been verified through the Sketch Engine content analysis program, and they demonstrate how a politician’s rhetoric can change depending on situational factors - in this case, the foreign political situation and domestic political processes. The overarching theme of the politicians’ communications is the termination of the UK’s membership in the European Union and the protracted coronavirus pandemic, which is the root of all social and economic ills. The words frequently used by Corbyn and Starmer are predetermined by the communicative behaviours of the politicians. The article attempts to determine the ‘communicative personality’ of Corbin and Starman using the leadership typology proposed by Harold Lasswell. This work thus contributes to the development of linguopersonology provisions and raises the necessity to develop types of the ‘communicative personality’ of a politician. Given the analysis results, the article suggests interpreting the Russian concept ‘kommunikativnaja lichnost’ as ‘linking word use and personality characteristics’.

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2023 Vol. 14 No. 1 53–69
http://journals.rudn.ru/semiotics-semantics
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
2313-2299 (print), ISSN 2411-1236 (online)
Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов.
Серия: ТЕОРИЯ ЯЗЫКА. СЕМИОТИКА. СЕМАНТИКА
DOI: 10.22363/2313-2299-2023-14-1-53-69
EDN: QGMMWR
УДК 811.111’42:32
Научная статья / Research article
Коммуникативная личность политика
наматериале парламентских выступлений лейбористов
Джереми Корбина иКира Стармера
Д.С. Мухортов ✉ , Е.А. Жовнер
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МухортовД.С.,ЖовнерЕ.А.
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

Linking Word Use and Personality Characteristics:
A Contrastive Study into Parliamentary Communications
ofLabour Leaders Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer
Denis S. Mukhortov1 ✉ , Elizaveta A. Zhovner2
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76, Vernadsky Prospekt, Moscow, Russia Federation, 119454
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Abstract.           

          

             
         
              
   

  

     

            



                
use
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Keywords: use 
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        Use   
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Мухортов Д.С., Жовнер Е.А. 
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        
       
       
        
        
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       
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       
      
  
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       
    
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   
      
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  
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       
       
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Мухортов Д.С., Жовнер Е.А. 
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          
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        
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      
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   
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       
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    
        
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
  

        

         
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

      




     
      

Мухортов Д.С., Жовнер Е.А. 
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    
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      
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         
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      
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  


      
     
   
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      

     


        



   


       
   


Мухортов Д.С., Жовнер Е.А. 
 
       



             
        

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
  



    


          





      
    
  
      


government, deal, secretary,
member, agreement, negotiation, etc.

The English Web Corpus 2020, 


 
chaos/chaotic
control/controlled
chaos

shambolic, botched,
half-baked,clobbersacrice


RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2023, 14
 
Таблица 1 / Table 1
Статистические данные, полученные при анализе корпуса речей Джереми Корбина
иКира Стармера/ Corpus analysis ofJeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer’s speeches data
Джереми Корбин/ Jeremy Corbyn Кир Стармер/ Keir Starmer
Лексема /
Word
Наиболее
частотная лексема
политика /
Politician’s most
frequently used
word
Частотность
употребления/
Usage
frequency
Лексема /
Word
Наиболее
частотная
лексема
политика /
Politician’s most
frequently used
word
Частотность
употребления/
Usage frequency
chaos
(chaotic) 184 8
chaos (chaotic) 290 7
control
(controlled)435 9
botched 55clobber 27 1
half-baked 64sacrice 62 6
shambolic 83



Анализ коммуникативной личности
Джереми Корбина иКира Стармера
       
   
 



 chaotic 

 chaos
cobbled-togethermishmash

       
chaos


Мухортов Д.С., Жовнер Е.А. 
 
 chaoschaos

 
       


 This Frankenstein deal

 zombie Government
zombie Government
      
shambolicbotched half-baked


 shambolic

             
shambolic

   shambolic       

 shambolic

 botched
          

  


dangerous
reckless
 taking Britain down a reckless path
        

             on the road
to nowhere 
          
dangerous road
 
dangerous leap in the dark
      


RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics, 2023, 14
 
    

       
       grim,
dreadful, horric, disastrous
 tragically
dreadful
     tragedy  grim

    disruption        

 sacricesacrice
sacrice
        disastrous    
tragedy
  
 horric 


 


        

 
  anxiety         

 anger

     deep disappointment
raw anger


       
         



 
ak 
        
chopping and changing 

Мухортов Д.С., Жовнер Е.А. 
 
             
        
        dodgy  

             
clobbering 

      

      
rule, manage, control     


     controlled  


 controlled 


  confusion

  chaos


  controlled 
chaos  confusion
      

 
     
  

         
      



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        

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        
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        
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
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
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
    
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
       



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
       

Мухортов Д.С., Жовнер Е.А. 
 
      
 
     
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 Арискина О.Л., Дрянгина Е.А     
       

 Сахарова А.В     
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 Караулов Ю.Н
 Прохоров Ю.Е.     

 Леонтьев А.А
 Красных В.В
 Карасик В.И       
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 Конецкая В.П

 Карасик В.И., Слышкин Г.Г
         

 Мухортов Д.С.
  



 Wodak R
 Цыцаркина Н.Н



 Шейгал Е.И
 Боженкова Н.А., Боженкова Р.К., Боженкова А.М.  
     
          
            

 Мухортов Д.С., Жовнер Е.А
      

 Цуциева М.Г      

 Tausczik Y.R., Pennebaker J.W       

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their Role in Teaching Russian to Foreigners
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 Insiders among Outsiders Myth or Reality? 
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           Current
Issues in Philology and Pedagogical Linguistics
 
 
Political communication prospects for the development of the scientic
direction materials of the Intern. scientic conf.    

 Disorders of discourse
           
Politics and Politicians Political Disourse
as an Object of Linguistic Analysis (Proceedings of the VIII RISA Convention, April 2014)

 Semiotics of political discourse
 
RUDN Journal of Russian and
Foreign Languages Research and Teaching, 
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            
     Rhema, 

 Actualization of the linguistic personality of a politician in modern
German political discourse 
 
  Journal of Language and Social Psychology 

 Psychopathology and Politics
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Мухортов Денис Сергеевич, 
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Мухортов Д.С., Жовнер Е.А. 
Жовнер Елизавета Андреевна,  
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Denis S. Mukhortov,        
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