基本説明
Analysis of the ideological shift in Britain during the New Labour era through corpus-based study of keywords.
Full Description
Building on Raymond Williams' iconic "Keywords" released in 1975, Jeffries and Walker show how some pivotal words significantly increased in use and evolved in meaning during the years of the `New Labour' project. Focussing on print news media, this book establishes a set of socio-political keywords for the `Blair Years', and demonstrates how their evolving meanings are indicative of the ideological landscape in Britain at that time, and the extent to which the cultural hegemony of the New Labour project influenced the language of the commentariat.Combining corpus linguistic approaches with critical stylistics the authors conduct an analysis of two newspaper corpora using computational tools. Looking closely at textually-constructed meanings within the data, their investigation of the keywords has a qualitative focus, and sets out a clear methodology for combining corpus approaches with systematic co-textual analysis.
Contents
List of figuresList of tables1. Background to keywords in the press2. Methods and data3. Sultans of Spin4. Choice is the word of the hour5. The immense possiblities of the word reform6. The impact of living in a global world7. A breeding ground for terror8. A sugary coating of respect9. ConclusionsReferencesIndex
