Lexico-semantic analysis of electronic petitions in the context of the digital political participation of French dwellers (based on the francophone segment Change.org)

Student: Silanteva Daria

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Political Linguistics (Master)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2019

The lexico-semantic analysis of electronic petitions in the context of digital political participation of French people (on change.org) analyzed the petitions of the French-speaking segment of the Change.org portal, revealed linguistic ways to attract signatories, distributed the main topics of petitions, and studied the thematic regions. The main problems of concern to the citizens of France were identified, the political activity of citizens was studied, it was proved that the regions of France are heterogeneous in their political activity, the central regions in which the number of petitions is significantly higher than in other regions are highlighted.

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