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On March 17, 2025 the presentation of the winning project of 2024 Scientific Grants from the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia – “The Linguistic Means of Manipulation in the Contemporary Georgian Political Discourse (Four Election Periods 2012-2024)” will be held at Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University.
The aim of the project is to research the linguistic means of manipulation in the contemporary Georgian political discourse on the material of four election periods (2012-2024).
The project envisages the creation of both theoretical and empirical resources of political linguistics in the Georgian language. On the one hand, yielding theoretical works (a monograph, a sentiment dictionary of Georgian, scientific papers); on the other hand, a Digital Corpus of the Contemporary Georgian Oral Political Speech will be created, which will allow us to explore the linguistic means of manipulation in the discourse of the Georgian political speech using modern technologies.
The selection and processing of empirical resources to create a “Digital Corpus of Modern Georgian Political Oral Speech” will be carried out in accordance with the principle of balancing:
The project is implemented by the Academy of Digital Humanities – Georgia and Shota Rustaveli – Batumi State University.
Prof. Manana Tandashvili (Frankfurt University/Digital Humanities Academy/Georgia),
Assoc. Professor Rusudan Papiashvili (Technical University of Georgia),
Assoc. Professor Mzia Khahutaishvili (Batumi State University),
Postdoctoral student Tatia Tsetskhladze (Batumi State University),
PhD student Anastasia Kamarauli (Batumi State University).
After the presentation of the project, a one-day workshop “How to research Georgian political orality in the digital age?” will be held.
Workshop leaders: Prof. Manana Tandashvili, Assoc. Prof. Mzia Khakhutaishvili, Postdoctoral Fellow Tatia Tsetskhladze.
