Titel of paper: "« Nous sommes en guerre sanitaire contre le COVID-19 » – A Corpus-based Approach of Official French, Italian, and Spanish Social Media Discourse in the Light of the Coronavirus Crisis"

Journal: promptus - Würzburger Beiträge zur Romanistik 6

Author: Robert Hesselbach, Institut für Romanistik, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91054 Erlangen/Germany
E-Mail: robert.hesselbach@fau.de
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9758-8290

Research goal: Corpus-based analysis of social media posts (Twitter and Facebook) by three heads of state or government in France (Emmanuel Macron), Italy (Giuseppe Conte) and Spain (Pedro Sánchez) during the coronavirus crisis in early 2020

Keywords: corpus linguistics; coronavirus; Covid-19; political discourse; social media; lexical co-occurrences;

Data: Text-based Twitter tweets and Facebook posts (from 2020-02-02 until 2020-04-30) by Macron, Conte and Sánchez

Data structure: 

Twitter tweets: 
-files: Conte_Twitter_IDs, Macron_Twitter_IDs and Sánchez_Twitter_IDs	
-data formats: .xlsx and .csv (with separator „|“ in ENCODING)
-Data structure:
-- three columns/entries per line, 582 lines
-- columns: Twitter-ID | Date of tweet | Name of politician

Facebook posts:
-files: Conte_Facebook_IDs, Macron_Facebook_IDs and Sánchez_Facebook_IDs
-data formats: .xlsx and .csv (with separator „|“ in ENCODING)
-Data structure:
-- four columns/entries per line, 321 lines
-- columns: Facebook page-ID | Facebook post-ID | Date of the post | Name of politician

Please note: .xlsx and .csv data contain the same information (just in different formats)