A Multilingual Corpus of German, French and Italian Political Discourse: Goals and Methodological Challenges

This contribution offers a first overview of a work-in-progress project focused on the creation of a multilingual corpus of political discourse. The languages involved in the project are German, French and Italian, and the data contained in the corpus are both (digital) written and spoken texts. The corpus is meant to be a collaborative source for the politolinguistic scientific community in order to facilitate the process of data collection. The selection of the texts is founded on the definition of ‘populism’, since the further aim of the project is to investigate the rise of populist discourse from 2022 until the present days. However, the project can be expanded in the future to involve the entire political spectrum and all types of political actors. The planned methods for the creation of the corpus as well as their potential limitations are delved into and the expected results are presented.