This study aimed at examining to what extent Mattarella’s first End-of-Year address resembles those of his predecessors by comparing the lexical profiles of all available addresses using Labbé's intertextual distance, cluster analysis and correspondence analysis. A substantial continuity with Giorgio Napolitano emerged from all analyses and we could say that Mattarella’s first End-of-Year discourse followed the example of his predecessor and, at least for the moment, he conformed to that model. These findings could be indicative that there has been a shift in the pattern of similarity noted in the presidents’ addresses as a chronological contiguity, not noted at the beginning of the republic’s history, was found in recent addresses.
The First End-Of-Year Address by the New President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella
CORTELAZZO, MICHELE;TUZZI, ARJUNA
2016
Abstract
This study aimed at examining to what extent Mattarella’s first End-of-Year address resembles those of his predecessors by comparing the lexical profiles of all available addresses using Labbé's intertextual distance, cluster analysis and correspondence analysis. A substantial continuity with Giorgio Napolitano emerged from all analyses and we could say that Mattarella’s first End-of-Year discourse followed the example of his predecessor and, at least for the moment, he conformed to that model. These findings could be indicative that there has been a shift in the pattern of similarity noted in the presidents’ addresses as a chronological contiguity, not noted at the beginning of the republic’s history, was found in recent addresses.
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