Corpora and Discourse Studies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Paul Baker, Tony McEnery

   Pages 1-19

3. e-Language: Communication in the Digital Age

   • Dawn Knight

   Pages 20-40

4. Beyond Modal Spoken Corpora: A Dynamic Approach to Tracking Language in Context

   • Svenja Adolphs, Dawn Knight, Ronald Carter

   Pages 41-62

5. Corpus-Assisted Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Television and Film Narratives

   • Monika Bednarek

   Pages 63-87

6. Analysing Discourse Markers in Spoken Corpora: Actually as a Case Study

   • Karin Aijmer

   Pages 88-109

7. Discursive Constructions of the Environment in American Presidential Speeches 1960–2013: A Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Study

   • Cinzia Bevitori

   Pages 110-133

8. Health Communication and Corpus Linguistics: Using Corpus Tools to Analyse Eating Disorder Discourse Online

   • Daniel Hunt, Kevin Harvey

   Pages 134-154

9. Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Academic Discourse

   • Jack A. Hardy

   Pages 155-174

10. Thinking about the News: Thought Presentation in Early Modern English News Writing

    • Brian Walker, Dan McIntyre

    Pages 175-191

11. The Use of Corpus Analysis in a Multi-Perspectival Study of Creative Practice

    • Darryl Hocking

    Pages 192-219

12. Corpus-Assisted Comparative Case Studies of Representations of the Arab World

    • Alan Partington

    Pages 220-243

13. Who Benefits When Discourse Gets Democratised? Analysing a Twitter Corpus around the British Benefits Street Debate

    • Paul Baker, Tony McEnery

    Pages 244-265

14. Representations of Gender and Agency in the Harry Potter Series

    • Sally Hunt

    Pages 266-284

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

    • Amanda Potts

    Pages 285-304

16. Back Matter

    Pages 305-310

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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.

• corpus
• corpora
• discourse
• linguistics
• analysis
• method
• language
• ideology
• practice
• text
• corpus linguistics
• discourse analysis

“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)

• Lancaster University, UK

  Paul Baker, Tony McEnery

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

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