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This study examines gendered dimensions of political discourse in European Parliament debates between 2009 and 2024, focusing on how war and migration are framed. Parliamentary debates constitute a crucial arena in which power, ideology, and identity are discursively negotiated, making them central to understanding how authority and solidarity are constructed in times of crisis. A self-compiled multilingual corpus of debates is analysed through corpus linguistic techniques, including keyword extraction, collocation, and concordance, in order to identify recurrent lexical and rhetorical strategies. These findings are contextualised through critical discourse analysis, drawing on Ruth Wodak’s discourse-historical approach to embed discursive patterns within broader socio-political and intertextual frameworks. Preliminary findings suggest that female Members of the European Parliament employ stronger modality, fewer hedges, and more explicit normative appeals than their male colleagues. They also more frequently foreground vulnerable actors, particularly migrants, women, and children. The study contributes to scholarship on gendered political communication and the discursive negotiation of crisis within the European Parliament.
| Keywords | European Parliament, gendered political discourse, war and migration, crisis debates, critical discourse analysis |
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| kamberguler@gmail.com |