Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict : Wording the War Paperback / softback
Edited by John Morley, Paul Bayley
Part of the Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 36 Tables, black and white; 50 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2013
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- ISBN:9780415852951
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 36 Tables, black and white; 50 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:31/05/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780415852951
