Linguistic Corpus of Digital Lexical Units Related to Socio-Political Protest Movements

The current globalization and digitalization keep reducing the gap between the virtual text and the event it describes. Protest movements are capable of changing the vector of national or regional political and sociocultural development. They have a serious communicative impact on modern society. The article describes a new linguistic corpus of digital lexical units based on socio-political protest movements and illustrates its operating algorithm. A digital lexical unit is a virtual hypertextual construction with a denotation, a signifier, and a lexeme. It includes a set of other digital and regular lexical units, as well as various media files, e.g., photos, images, audio, video, etc. The authors analyzed several socio-political cases to illustrate the fundamental principles of creating a corpus of digital lexical units based on protest socio-political movements. The digital lexical units were represented by three thematic groups: social protests, political protests, and protests of indigenous peoples. The technical parameters made it possible to limit the search by social network, user name, URL, date, text, type (audio, link, video, etc.), connotation, and popularity count. The extralinguistic analysis of digital lexical units may reveal the role of a particular protest movement in the social and political life of the country. The corpus algorithm can be applied to various operating systems