Corpora and Discourse Studies Integrating Discourse and Corpora [Hardcover]

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.

1. Introduction; Paul Baker and Tony McEnery

2. E-Language: Communication in the Digital Age; Dawn Knight

3. Beyond Monomodal Spoken Corpora: Using a Field Tracker to Analyse Participants' Speech at the British Art Show; Svenja Adolphs, Dawn Knight and Ronald Carter

4. Corpus-assisted Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Television and Film Narratives; Monika Bednarek

5. Analysing Discourse Markers in Spoken Corpora: Actually as a Case Study; Karin Aijmer

6. Discursive Constructions of the Environment in American Presidential Speeches 1960-2013: A Diachronic Corpus-assisted Study; Cinzia Bevitori

7. Health Communication and Corpus Linguistics: Using Corpus Tools to Analyse Eating Disorder Discourse Online; Daniel Hunt and Kevin Harvey

8. Multi-Dimensional Analysis of Academic Discourse; Jack A. Hardy

9. Thinking About the News: Thought Presentation in Early Modern English News Writing; Brian Walker and Dan McIntyre

10. The Use of Corpus Analysis in a Multi-perspectival Study of Creative Practice; Darryl Hocking

11. Corpus-assisted Comparative Case Studies of Representations of the Arab World; Alan Partington

12. Who Benefits When Discourse Gets Democratised? Analysing a Twitter Corpus Around the British Benefits Street Debate; Paul Baker and Tony McEnery

13. Representations of Gender and Agency in the Harry Potter Series;lÓ6