AfD Discourse Corpus (2013–2026): A Multi-Arena Corpus for Critical Discourse Analysis

A multi-arena corpus of the discourse of Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), assembled for corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. It documents the AfD across four communicative arenas — federal election manifestos (2013–2025), the 2016 founding programme, state (Landtag) manifestos (2024), flagship rally speeches, and Bundestag plenary speeches (2017–2026, 7,810 speeches) — together with a comparative reference set of all major parties' manifestos (2013–2025).

Owing to copyright, only the public-domain parliamentary-speech layer (derived from the CPP-BT corpus, CC0) is included in full; all other materials are documented with full provenance and a reconstruction recipe in README.md and MANIFEST.csv, so that the complete corpus can be reproduced from its original sources (Manifesto Project, afd.de, CPP-BT).

See README.md for structure and licensing and CODEBOOK.md for variable documentation.