Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm
ISBN: 978-1-041-34575-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Introducing Corpus-based Discourse Studies explores how large collections of texts can be used to investigate the ways language represents people, events, identities, and relations of power. This is the first systematic textbook to offer a complete, methodologically unified framework suitable for both teaching and research. The author integrates key traditions—including Foucault's discursive formations, Fairclough's model of discourse as social practice, and the Discourse-Historical Approach—providing a theoretically grounded and methodologically hands-on pathway for analyzing text, context, intertextuality, interdiscursivity, and discursive change.
The textbook introduces core techniques including frequency, keyness, dispersion, collocation, and concordance analysis, then shows how they illuminate agency, social actors, metaphor, argumentation, legitimation, blame avoidance, and narrative. It connects numerical patterns with close reading and wider social and historical context, making clear both what corpus evidence can reveal and where interpretation requires caution. Examples range across political, media, and cultural discourse in Europe and beyond, from British newspaper reporting on migration between 2014 and 2023 to changing ideas of film as a language from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Practical tasks, detailed examples, visualizations, and research templates guide readers through complete projects. The book develops innovative ways of tracing recurring arguments and narrative structures across large datasets, offering a rigorous, transparent framework for studying discourse over time. With step-by-step demonstrations, sample corpora, walkthroughs of corpus tools, and applied examples from media, political communication, institutional discourse, and social movements, this textbook bridges qualitative interpretation and quantitative linguistic evidence. Ideal for researchers and advanced students in thr field of humanities and social sciences, it fills a critical gap between introductory discourse analysis texts and specialized corpus-linguistic manuals.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
Chapter 1 What Is Discourse Analysis?
- 1.1 Discourse and Its Study
- 1.2 Text, Genre and Discourse
- 1.3 Intertextuality and Interdiscursivity
- 1.4 Discourse Strands and Discursive Change
- 1.5 Core Dimensions of Discourse
- 1.6 Discourse, Power and Ideology
- 1.7 From Qualitative to Corpus-Based Approaches
- 1.8 The Discourse-Analytic Research Process and Reflexivity
Chapter 2 From Texts to Corpora
- 2.1 Corpus Design
- 2.2 Data Collection
- 2.3 Ethical Considerations
- 2.4 File Preparation
- 2.5 Metadata
- 2.6 Plain-text Workflows
Chapter 3 Fundamental Metrics: Frequency, Dispersion and Keyness
- 3.1 Lexical Profiling
- 3.2 Dispersion
- 3.3 Using Keyness to Compare Corpora
- 3.4 First Interpretive Questions
Chapter 4 Collocation and Semantic Prosody
- 4.1 Collocation Metrics
- 4.2 Semantic Preference and Semantic Prosody
- 4.3 Studying Frames and Actor Depictions
Chapter 5 Concordance Analysis
- 5.1 Concordance Analysis as Methodological Bridge
- 5.2 Identifying Metaphorical Language and Conceptual Mappings
- 5.3 Analysing Process Types and Agency
- 5.4 Integrating Quantitative Patterns and Qualitative Interpretation
Chapter 6 Diachronic and Comparative Analysis
- 6.1 Designing Diachronic and Comparative Corpora
- 6.2 Tracking Change Over Time
- 6.3 Comparative Analysis Across Discursive Fields
- 6.4 Detecting Discursive Shifts and Transformations
- 6.5 Visualising Change and Difference
- 6.6 Interpreting Diachronic and Comparative Findings
Chapter 7 Representation in Discourse
- 7.1 Why Representation Matters
- 7.2 Nomination Strategies
- 7.3 Attribution
- 7.4 Social Actor Analysis
- 7.5 Semantic Grouping and Clustering
Chapter 8 Argumentation in Discourse
- 8.1 Why argumentation matters
- 8.2 Theses, Arguments, Conclusion Rules and Conclusions
- 8.3 Explicit and Implicit Argumentation
- 8.4 Fallacies
- 8.5 Topoi
- 8.6 Legitimation and Blame-avoidance
- 8.7 Quantification
- 8.8 Corpus-assisted Mapping
Chapter 9 Narrative in Discourse
- 9.1 Why Narrative Matters
- 9.2 Elements of Narrative
- 9.3 Proto-narratives
- 9.4 Corpus-based Narrative Analysis (CBNA)
Chapter 10 Triangulation
- 10.1 Why Triangulation Matters
- 10.2 Types and Aims of Triangulation
- 10.3 Triangulation in Corpus-based Discourse Studies
Chapter 11 Designing and Reporting Studies
- 11.1 Research Questions
- 11.2 Workflow Design
- 11.3 Data Transparency
- 11.4 Visualisation
- 11.5 Writing Research
Chapter 12 Conclusion: The Future of Corpus-based Discourse Studies
- 12.1 What this Book Has Argued
- 12.2 From Method to Research Practice
- 12.3 Limits, Cautions and Responsibilities
- 12.4 New Directions for CBDS
- 12.5 GenAI, Future Challenges and Final Reflections
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