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

Student: Yagubova Ksenia

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities (Nizhny Novgorod)

Educational Programme: Political Linguistics (Master)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2019

Nowadays online platforms for creating and promoting civil initiatives are gaining increasing popularity. This is due to the popularity of the Internet. The purpose of this work was the thematic mapping of online petitions, as well as a comprehensive study of lexical and semantic tools - components of the text of English-language electronic petitions, selected by moderators and ideas on the “change.org” platform and analysis of the rules for creating successful petitions on the material of the UK segments. In the future, research prospects may consist in expanding empirical material by studying the texts of online petitions, etc., as well as using other types of software for studying the text of electronic petitions.

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