Corpora and Discourse Studies: Integrating Discourse and Corpora

by Anthony McEnery (Editor), Paul Baker (Editor)

Overview

This edited collection brings together contemporary research that uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. The book takes an inclusive view of the meaning of discourse, covering different text-types or modes of language, including discourse as both social practice and as ideology or representation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137431738
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date:	07/21/2015
Series:	Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	310
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Svenja Adolphs, University of Nottingham, UK Karin Aijmer, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK Monika Bednarek, University of Sydney, Australia Cinzia Bevitori, University of Bologna, Italy Ron Carter, University of Nottingham, UK Jack A. Hardy, Emory University, USA Kevin Harvey, University of Nottingham, UK Darryl Hocking, AUT University, New Zealand Daniel Hunt, Queen Mary University of London, UK Sally Hunt, Rhodes University, South Africa Dawn Knight, Cardiff University, UK Tony McEnery, Lancaster University, UK Dan McIntyre, University of Huddersfield, UK Alan Partington, Bologna University, Italy Amanda Potts, Lancaster University, UK Brian Walker, University of Huddersfield, UK

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; Paul Baker and Tony McEnery

2. E-Language: Communication in the Digital Age; Dawn Knight

3. Beyond Monomodal Spoken Corpora: Using a Field Tracker to Analyse Participants' Speech at the British Art Show; Svenja Adolphs, Dawn Knight and Ronald Carter

4. Corpus-assisted Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Television and Film Narratives; Monika Bednarek

5. Analysing Discourse Markers in Spoken Corpora: Actually as a Case Study; Karin Aijmer

6. Discursive Constructions of the Environment in American Presidential Speeches 1960-2013: A Diachronic Corpus-assisted Study; Cinzia Bevitori

7. Health Communication and Corpus Linguistics: Using Corpus Tools to Analyse Eating Disorder Discourse Online; Daniel Hunt and Kevin Harvey

8. Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Academic Discourse; Jack A. Hardy

9. Thinking About the News: Thought Presentation in Early Modern English News Writing; Brian Walkerand Dan McIntyre

10. The Use of Corpus Analysis in a Multi-perspectival Study of Creative Practice; Darryl Hocking

11. Corpus-assisted Comparative Case Studies of Representations of the Arab World; Alan Partington

12. Who Benefits When Discourse Gets Democratised? Analysing a Twitter Corpus Around the British Benefits Street Debate; Paul Baker and Tony McEnery

13. Representations of Gender and Agency in the Harry Potter Series; Sally Hunt

14. Filtering the Flood: Semantic Tagging as a Method of Identifying Salient Discourse Topics in a Large Corpus of Hurricane Katrina Reportage; Amanda Potts

Editorial Reviews

This book is arranged in an accessible and logical way, and it deserves a wide readership. It is clearly structured and well placed to achieve its goal of showing how a corpus linguistic approach can be merged into various discourse analyses, making it a valuable contribution to current cross-disciplinary studies in language and communication. It can be recommended to faculty and to students who are interested in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.” (Peng Yongmei, Discourse Studies, Vol. 18 (6), 2016)

“For researchers, the book is an up-to-date summary of corpus-driven discourse analysis, and one may find the thorough methodological sections of each chapter helpful in guiding his/her own research. … Throughout the volume, there are many interesting and useful discussions on particular challenges raised by the integration of corpus methods and discourse studies. … scholars of corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and other contingent disciplines would find this book valuable reading with important insights for future research practices.” (Sibo Chen, LINGUIST List, linguistlist.org, March, 2016)

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