ANALISI DELLE SIMILITUDINI FRA I DISCORSI PARLAMENTARI E LA NARRATIVA – UNA RICERCA CORPUS-BASED

Abstract

This study describes a compilation of two corpora and their characteristics. One includes the parliamentary speeches delivered by former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi in the span of six months starting from the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian political crisis (from February to August 2022). The other is a twentieth-century prose work on the theme of war named “Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno” by Italo Calvino. The two corpora are compared thanks to Google Colaboratory which operates based on Python – a programming language. The results are used to clarify the hypotheses around the possible similarities between the two genres of text and to analyze the characteristics of the most relevant pairs in the two corpora.