On Some Methodological Issues of CADS Language in Politics in Slavic speaking countries Václav Cvrček CADS and KWAIj Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) Use of corpora in discourse analysis ▶ goal: text/discourse interpretation Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) Use of corpora in discourse analysis ▶ ▶ goal: text/discourse interpretation reduce researcher’s bias (Baker 2012) Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) Use of corpora in discourse analysis ▶ goal: text/discourse interpretation ▶ reduce researcher’s bias (Baker 2012) ▶ identification of prominent topics (( prominent words) Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) Use of corpora in discourse analysis ▶ goal: text/discourse interpretation ▶ reduce researcher’s bias (Baker 2012) ▶ identification of prominent topics (( prominent words) ▶ keywords identification and analysis MethodsIj Method of identification of prominent words 1. raw or relative frequency of words in a text/corpus Method of identification of prominent words 1. raw or relative frequency of words in a text/corpus 2. thematic concentration (TC) Method of identification of prominent words 1. raw or relative frequency of words in a text/corpus 2. thematic concentration (TC) 3. keywords (KWs)