The tool below allows enables people to compare today's Queen's Speech with previous ones.
This is a simple form of DIY concordancing but on first glance it can be very interesting. For example, I clicked on "departure" and find that it only seems to have been used once before in the speeches since 1911. I suppose it is not usual to discuss departures in a government's programmes.
Michael Rosen makes some useful points about the use of language in the article below but there is much more analysis that can be done - I assume that in the fullness of time it will be.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/22/phone-hacking-scandal-language-evasion
This blog might contain posts that are only visible to logged-in users, or where only logged-in users can comment. If you have an account on the system, please log in for full access.
