The Stability of the Discursive Framework of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Tested by Textometry

The communication of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is submitted to standards of homogeneity and coherence albeit carried by multiple voices. The ministry speeches are also at the interface of institutional and political discourses. We investigate factors of variation involved in this type of discourse: the place of the speaker, his or her political affiliation and status. To test these hypotheses, we propose a textometric exploration of a large corpus (4191 texts) produced between 1997 and 2019 (five presidential mandates and 36 speakers holding three different functions). Correspondence analyses point out these variations, by analyzing the distribution of parts of speech by mandate and by speaker.