Full Description
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.
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
