@inproceedings{katja-2026-discourse,
    title = "Ours and Yours: A Discourse Analysis of Political Identity Markers in {S}lovenian Parliamentary Discourse",
    author = "Katja, Meden",
    editor = "Eskevich, Maria  and
      Vandeghinste, Vincent  and
      Bodron, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the {P}arla{CLARIN} {V} Workshop on Interoperability, Multilinguality, and Multimodality in Parliamentary Corpora",
    month = may,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Palma de Mallorca (Spain)",
    publisher = "ELRA Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/revision-workflow/2026.parlaclarin-1.3/",
    doi = "10.63317/3tq2584ifkqw",
    pages = "13--21",
    abstract = "With recent enrichments of the ParlaMint corpora, new opportunities have emerged for examining a range of political and discursive phenomena. This paper utilises the Slovenian ParlaMint corpus to investigate the construction of political identities through the possessive pronouns `our' (slv. na{\v{s}}) and `your' (slv. va{\v{s}}) in Slovenian parliamentary discourse. The analysis uses a corpus-assisted approach, combining text-type, collocation, and keyword analyses of the lemmas na{\v{s}} and va{\v{s}}. The data are drawn from three subcorpora compiled from speeches of Members of Parliament: (1) Our, containing speeches in which na{\v{s}} occurs; (2) Your, containing speeches in which va{\v{s}} occurs; and (3) Our{\&}Your, containing speeches in which both lemmas co-occur within the same sentence. The results indicate a clear alignment with established patterns of positive self-representation and negative other-representation. Occurrences of `our' are predominantly associated with positively evaluative discourse, with Norms {\&} Values emerging as a central category. In contrast, occurrences of `your' are more typically linked to negative sentiment and keywords, with Activities/Discourse identified as the most prominent category. These findings suggest that these possessive pronouns function as markers of ideological positioning and discursive polarisation in Slovenian parliamentary debates."
}