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Book review: Buckledee S. (2018) The Language of Brexit
No full textReview of The Language of Brexit by S. Buckledee (2018
Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies
No full textThe Journal of Corpora and Discourse Studies publishes original empirical research employing corpus methods for the analysis of language in use as a vehicle of communication
‘The moral<i>in</i>the story’: a diachronic investigation of lexicalised morality in the UK press
No full textIn this paper, I explore the discourses surrounding whatever is explicitly identified as a moral issue in the SiBol corpora. This analysis is mainly diachronic but will combine a variety of parameters in order to access patterns of change/stability across different newspapers, within a single newspaper in time, across different news types, across topics and in the broader context of recent history. I adopt the Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS)22 See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus-assisted_discourse_studies methodology – merging, and shunting between, quantitative and qualitative approaches. The analysis investigates morality-related lexical items, their collocations, the surrounding contexts, and the news items and topics they are framed within, in an attempt to offer a general picture of the topic, while also aiming to provide an in-depth understanding of what the press means or projects by moral.</jats:p
Corpus linguistics in the study of news media
Full text linkThe definition of “news discourse” can be rather broad and accommodate various forms
of journalistic output. Bednarek and Caple describe it as ‘the kind of discourse we encounter
when we turn on the television, when we open the newspapers, when we go
online or when we switch on the radio to get our dose of daily happenings’ (Bednarek
and Caple 2012: 1). The qualities which make news discourse an ideal territory for
corpus linguistics are inbuilt in the definition: its relevance and its abundance
If on a winter’s night two researchers…: a challenge to assumptions of soundness of interpretation
Full text linkThis paper reports on a quasi-experiment into triangulation, which is increasingly frequently cited as a guarantor of validity and reliability of findings. The methodology that we are exploring is the increasingly widely employed combination of corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis. It has been argued that corpus approaches can offer greater objectivity because they are data-driven (or at least data-supported), more generalisable as they are based on larger samples, and more transparent given the research may be replicated on the same data. In order to explore the extent to which integrating corpus approaches may contribute to the stability of interpretations the authors set up an exploratory experiment. We attempt to answer the question: would two researchers starting with the same corpus and research question and (broadly) theoretical / methodological framework come to the same/similar conclusions
Who Was Fighting and Who/What Was Being Fought? The Construction of Participants' Identities in UK and US Reporting of the Iraq War
No full textThis study addresses the media reporting of the conflict in Iraq in 2003 and analyses the linguistic representation of the participants in the war. As Fowler (1991: 4) states, “[t]here are always different ways of saying the same thing, and they are not random, accidental alterna- tives. Differences in expression carry ideological distinctions (and thus differences in representation)”. Our aim is to identify such differences in expression and to describe how they were used to construe various participants in the UK press over a specific period, on the basis of the theoretical assumption that, as social identities are enacted in discourse, they can be uncovered through discourse analysis. From the analysis we conclude that the reporting of this war was characterised by vagueness regarding the enemy, which appears as a one dimensional and under-defined Other in the metaphorical war on terror
Representations of Citizens/hip in 230 Years of American History. A Diachronic Corpus-assisted Approach
Full text linkThe paper examines how American presidents have discursively constructed citizens (and citizenship) over more than two hundred years of American political history from an interdisciplinary perspective. As one deeply contested concept in different political arenas (Wiesner et al 2017), involving aspects of collective identities, citizens/hip has been at the very heart of Western democracies since ancient times, although its significance has gradually increased in modern periods (Marshall 1950, Bayley et al. 2013)
Establishing the EU: The Representation of Europe in the Press in 1993 and 2005
No full textThis paper investigates how the European Union was represented in three British newspapers over two different time periods: 1993 and 2005. The Treaty on European Union, which led to the creation of the European Union, was signed in 1992 and entered into force in 1993. The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe was signed in 2004, and like the Maastricht Treaty was subject to ratification. However, unlike the Maastricht Treaty, it was rejected in referendums in France and the Netherlands in 2005 and therefore was not implemented. These two events were chosen for their importance in the history of the European Union and because they allow for a diachronic comparison of the construal of Europe in the British press. Two sub-corpora were used in the study, the first, SiBol_93, contains approximately 92 million tokens from three broadsheet British newspapers collected in 1993 and the second, SiBol_05, contains approximately 150 million tokens collected from the same sources in 2005. Each of these corpora covers the year after the signing of the treaties and therefore the period in which the ratification was discussed. The corpora were investigated using Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) which involves a shunting between quantitative and qualitative analytical approaches and starting points (see, for example, Partington 2004, forthcoming; Baker 2006). Our findings show that while there is no simplistic positive to negative reversal of evaluation, there is certainly a marked decrease in the newsworthiness of Europe and the European Union, and the problem the European Union faces is primarily one of visibility
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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