Citation & provenance
The Sharoufi Multimodal Debate Analysis Framework
Version 1.0 — in effect 14 September 2026
The Sharoufi Multimodal Debate Analysis Framework (v1.0) © Dr. Hussain Al Sharoufi. Developed manually between 1997–2001 and set out in the doctoral thesis "Pragmatic and Paralinguistic Features of Televised Political Discourse in a Political Debate". Any research, publication or public analysis produced with DebateLens must cite the framework and its author.
Official codebook
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How to cite
Any research, publication or public analysis produced with this platform must cite the framework and its author.
Doctoral thesis — APA 7th
Cite this for the original framework, its categories and its manual application.
Al Sharoufi, H. (2001). Pragmatic and Paralinguistic Features of Televised Political Discourse in a Political Debate [Doctoral dissertation].
Doctoral thesis — MLA 9th
Humanities style for the same source.
Al Sharoufi, Hussain. Pragmatic and Paralinguistic Features of Televised Political Discourse in a Political Debate. 2001. PhD dissertation.
Doctoral thesis — Chicago
Notes-and-bibliography style.
Al Sharoufi, Hussain. "Pragmatic and Paralinguistic Features of Televised Political Discourse in a Political Debate." PhD diss., 2001.
Lexical Cohesive Trio — APA 7th
Cite this whenever the cohesion layer, repetition patterning or the lexical web is used.
Al Sharoufi, H. (2014). A novel framework for teaching academic writing: The Lexical Cohesive Trio. Pragmatics and Society, 5(3). John Benjamins.
The Sharoufi Multimodal Debate Analysis Framework v1.0 — APA 7th
Cite this for the operational coding scheme as implemented in the platform.
Al Sharoufi, H. (2026). The Sharoufi Multimodal Debate Analysis Framework (Version 1.0) [Coding scheme]. DebateLens — Televised Political Debate Analyser.
The platform — APA 7th
Cite this for the software used to produce the analysis.
Al Sharoufi, H. (2026). DebateLens — Televised Political Debate Analyser (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. https://debatelens.org
BibTeX
All three records, for LaTeX bibliographies.
@phdthesis{alsharoufi2001debate, author = {Al Sharoufi, Hussain}, title = {Pragmatic and Paralinguistic Features of Televised Political Discourse in a Political Debate}, year = {2001}, type = {PhD dissertation} } @article{alsharoufi2014lct, author = {Al Sharoufi, Hussain}, title = {A novel framework for teaching academic writing: The Lexical Cohesive Trio}, journal = {Pragmatics and Society}, volume = {5}, number = {3}, year = {2014}, publisher = {John Benjamins} } @misc{alsharoufi2026debatelens, author = {Al Sharoufi, Hussain}, title = {{The Sharoufi Multimodal Debate Analysis Framework} (Version 1.0)}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {DebateLens --- Televised Political Debate Analyser}, url = {https://debatelens.org} }
Documented chronology
The framework was developed manually between 1997–2001 and completed in the doctoral thesis Pragmatic and Paralinguistic Features of Televised Political Discourse in a Political Debate (2001), before automated discourse-analysis software or large language models existed. This record establishes the order in which the work was done.
1997–2001
The five-domain framework is developed and applied manually to a televised presidential debate, before automated discourse-analysis tools or large language models existed.
2001
The doctoral thesis "Pragmatic and Paralinguistic Features of Televised Political Discourse in a Political Debate" is completed and deposited.
2014
The Lexical Cohesive Trio is published in Pragmatics and Society, 5(3). John Benjamins, extending Hoey's patterns of lexis with reference, repetition and academic lexical phrases.
2026
The Sharoufi Multimodal Debate Analysis Framework v1.0 is released as the operational coding scheme implemented by DebateLens, together with the ADAR culturemic layer (discourseanalyser.org).
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Methodology & Framework © Dr. Hussain Al Sharoufi. All rights reserved. Generated by DebateLens.
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