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A contribution to the study of specialised discourse : a decoding of the annual address by the Governor of the Bank of England at Mansion House (1946-2016)

Abstract

This research thesis, undertaken in the area of anglophone studies and, more specifically, in specialised English, stands at the crossroads of several disciplines: linguistics, economics, data mining, history, politics and the study of institutional trust. Engaging with language involves building a genre-based corpus, understanding the culture of the specialised communities within which discourse emerges, the exploration of discourse in its situational and historical context and the analysis of the strategies deployed, in terms of rhetoric, hedging, metaphors or narration. The study is also based on the specific knowledge of the monetary policy and, more generally, of the dynamic of contemporary British society underpinning the chronological span of the corpus. The decoding of the speeches delivered between 1946 and 2016 at Mansion House, by nine successive Governors of the Bank of England, aims at a better understanding of language in finance and economics. The diachronicity of the study helps in the comprehension of changes affecting the production and the reception of the speeches over a period of 70 years, from the era of constructive ambiguity to a strategy of transparency by the Bank of England. Computer-assisted analysis of the speeches is presented in the form of an exploratory protocol. Communication issues arising from the Mansion House ritual, the management of uncertainty, the emergence of institutional facts, the critical reception of the speeches by the press, the relationship between the Governor and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, as well as the episodes affecting or overturning policies in post-war Britain provide further insight into the specialized discourse in question, its constraints and its challenges.

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