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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