Syntactic Means in Keir Starmer’s Speeches on Climate Change: An Investigation of Dependent Clauses
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https://doi.org/10.18485/analiff.2025.37.1.1Keywords:
dependent clauses, climate change discourse, Keir Starmer, syntactic meansAbstract
Whilst Keir Starmer, the current British prime minister, assumed office fairly recently, on 5 July 2024, he has nevertheless managed to express his views on the issue of climate change in a number of speeches. Due to the recency of his incumbency as a prime minister, however, Starmer’s climate change discourse is fairly unexplored. The present paper seeks to offer a novel insight into the under-researched topic of Starmer’s discourse on climate change by analysing syntactic means, such as dependent clauses, in a corpus of his speeches on the issue of climate change. The paper first presents an outline of the theoretical premises of the analysis, followed by the description of the corpus, the results of the analysis and their discussion. Special attention is paid to the frequency of the occurrence of dependent clauses in the corpus. The results of the corpus analysis indicate that the most frequently occurring dependent clauses in Starmer’s speeches on climate change are adverbial, infinitive, and -ing clauses. These findings are amply illustrated and discussed in the article.
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