DISCOURSE MARKERS IN KEIR STARMER’S SPEECHES ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Given that the United Kingdom (the UK) is seen as a world leader in
addressing, mitigating, and prioritising the issue of climate change (Albanese et al.,
2025), climate change appears to be a frequent theme in British political discourse.
In particular, all major political actors on the UK, inclusive of the Conservative and
Labour Parties, have their own agendas associated with the issue of climate change.
Currently, however, there are no published studies on climate change discourse by
Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party and the incumbent British prime minister.
In this light, the article presents a quantitative study whose purpose is to identify,
quantify, and discuss discourse markers (henceforth – DMs) in a corpus of speeches
on climate change by Keir Starmer. The corpus is analysed in the computer program
AntConc (Anthony, 2022) in order to compute the frequency of the occurrence of DMs.
The results of the quantitative corpus analysis indicate that the most frequent DMs in
the corpus are (i) and, (ii) as, (iii) but, (iv) also, (v) so, and (vi) because. The findings
are further discussed and illustrated in the article
addressing, mitigating, and prioritising the issue of climate change (Albanese et al.,
2025), climate change appears to be a frequent theme in British political discourse.
In particular, all major political actors on the UK, inclusive of the Conservative and
Labour Parties, have their own agendas associated with the issue of climate change.
Currently, however, there are no published studies on climate change discourse by
Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party and the incumbent British prime minister.
In this light, the article presents a quantitative study whose purpose is to identify,
quantify, and discuss discourse markers (henceforth – DMs) in a corpus of speeches
on climate change by Keir Starmer. The corpus is analysed in the computer program
AntConc (Anthony, 2022) in order to compute the frequency of the occurrence of DMs.
The results of the quantitative corpus analysis indicate that the most frequent DMs in
the corpus are (i) and, (ii) as, (iii) but, (iv) also, (v) so, and (vi) because. The findings
are further discussed and illustrated in the article
Publisert i Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT (SILC), 2025
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