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Query Subject:	Applying Corpus Models to Presidential Debate
Author:	Enas Qazan
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Linguistic LingField(s):	Discourse Analysis Text/Corpus Linguistics

Query:	I’m a Masters student analyzing the discourse of the 2008 presidential debates. My thesis is ''Textual and contextual analysis of presidential debates.'' I plan to apply four models on my corpus (those by Halliday and Hasan, Dresseler and de Beaugrande, and Sinclair and Coulthard, for analysing textuality and Van Dijk for analysing contextuality). The model adopted is to be eclectic. It is heavily based on Sinclair and Coulthard 1975 but there is an interdisciplinary relation among the three. Sinclair and Coulthard will be adapted and modified to be applicable for analysing such kind of discourse. I am curious to know if there is anything I should be aware of before applying the models, or if you have any suggestions on how to proceed. Thank you.
LL Issue:	23.585
Date posted:	04-Feb-2012
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