Voters versus the Corpus of Fictional POTUS.
Scholars have argued that voting behaviour changes over time and, today, voters are no longer loyal to traditional 'political brands'. We, hence, try to explore, through constructing 'action corpora' using novels, movies and TV dramas from the last 50 years (1960-2012) relating tofictional US presid...
| Publicado en: | Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities Vol. 23; pp. 85 - 113 |
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Universiti Putra Malaysia
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