Table of Contents
List of Concordances List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: A description of CorDis , John Morley 1. The making of the CorDis Corpus: compilation and mark-up, Letizia Cirillo, Anna Marchi and Marco Venuti 2. Strict vs. Nurturant Parents? A Corpus-Assisted Study of Congressional Positioning on the War in Iraq, Donna R. Miller and Jane H. Johnson 3. ‘Just War', or just ‘war’: Arguments for doing the ‘right thing’, Paul Bayley and Cinzia Bevitori 4. White House press briefings as a message to the world, Giulia Riccio 5. Positioning and stance in TV news reporting of the 2003 Iraq war: the anchor on CBS and the news presenter on BBC, Linda Lombardo 6. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists’: how UK and US television news reported the 2003 Iraq conflict, Caroline Clark 7. Editorials and Opinion Articles in the CorDis corpus: a transversal study, Amanda C. Murphy 8. Interacting with conflicting goals: Facework and impoliteness in hostile cross-examination, Charlotte Taylor 9. Insistent Voices: Government messages, Alison Duguid 10. Evaluating evaluation and some concluding thoughts on CADS, Alan Partington List of Contributors Bibliography Index