A Discourse Analysis of Digital Assets Language (DRAFT ONLY)

A Discourse Analysis of Digital Assets Language 

 (Draft Only) 

 By Janpha Thadphoothon 

Department of Business English, Faculty of Arts, Dhurakij Pundit University, Bangkok, Thailand

Email: janpha.tha@dpu.ac.th

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to analyze a set of texts (hearing) in terms of their collocations and connotations. In this study, a word is considered a basic unit of the analysis. The researcher attempts to deconstruct the meaning of some selected words found in the hearing (communication event). Machine learning will be employed to identify the target words and their collocations.

Keywords: Discourse analysis, Collocations, Connotation

 Aim: to analyze the key terms (vocabulary) derived from the hearing on digital assets. 

This analyses include the following:

1. Collocation analysis

2. Sentiment Analysis (Deep AI)

3. Connotation Analysis

4. Representational Analysis

Connotations of the key terms - Negative , Neutral, or Positive.

"Digital assets" is this term negative or positive in the hearing?

"Cryptocurrencies" + or - or neutral?

Lexical chain?

Collocations

and Connotations

 

Background

The language of new money is another opportunity of understand the new knowledge coming into existence. Because the vocabulary is NEW, we do not fully understand what they mean and their meanings are flexible.

Notes:

1. Crypto executives including Jeremy Allaire, CEO of Circle, Samuel Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX, Brian Brooks, CEO of Bitfury Group, Charles Cascarilla, CEO of Paxos Trust Company, Denelle Dixon, CEO of Stellar Development Foundation, and Alesia Jeanne Haas, CEO of Coinbase Inc., testify at the hearing. 

References 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_kZELcynKQ&t=2933s

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