[23009969 - Open Linguistics] What Lies Underneath a Political Speech Critical Discourse Analysis of Thai PM’s Political Speeches Aired on the TV Programme Returning Happiness to the People (1)
4 Research Methodology 4.1 Data The corpus of the study is taken from the speeches of Gen Prayuth in the TV programme Returning Happiness to the People collected from 30 May 2014 to 30 May 2015. The translated English corpus which is used fora quantitative analysis is composed of 10,672 word types and 325,398 word tokens. The English translations are provided by Royal Thai Government at http://www.thaigov.go.th/en/speech-2.html. It is worth noting that the lack of accuracy in these professional translations is possibly deliberate, due to the fact that the messages are intended to address different groups of audiences.
