Sentiment Analysis of Russian Oral Speech Using a Dictionary Approach Based on the Material of Everyday Communication Corpora

Student: Egorenkova Anna

Educational Programme: Philology (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2024

The present paper is devoted to the study of emotionally coloured speech of different social groups represented in the oral corpora of Russian speech. It is believed that women and young people are more emotional. The aim of this paper's work is to identify which groups of informants use more tonal vocabulary in their speech than others and to prove the hypothesis about the emotionality of women and young people based on accurate calculations. To achieve this goal, in the study it was used automatic sentiment analysis, which is one of the fastest growing fields of linguistics nowadays. This analysis allows us to know the tonality and degree of emotionality in a text.

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