Date: 27-Aug-2009 From: Tara Thomas <Tara.Thomastaylorandfrancis.com> Subject: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict: Morley, Bayley (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict
Subtitle: Wording the War
Series Title: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
Published: 2009
Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
http://www.routledge.com/
Editor: John Morley
Editor: Paul Bayley
Electronic: ISBN: 0203868153 9780203868157 Pages: 350 Price: U.S. $ 120.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0415871379 9780415871372 Pages: 350 Price: U.S. $ 120.00
Abstract:
This volume seeks to illustrate the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus that was queried through special software with the aim of identifying regularly occurring lexical and semantic patterns, with classical discourse analysis, which seeks to investigate naturally occurring language in the context in which it is produced. Interpreting the field of politics quite widely, to include news reporting and a quasi-judicial inquiry into the behavior of politicians and journalists, discourses in the USA and the UK are considered. The central purpose of the volume is to gain insights not just into language, and the ways in which we can investigate it through a corpus, but also into the ways in which political action is realized through discourse.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Text/Corpus Linguistics
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