Corpus-assisted Discourse Studies - Some Research To Date

Some Research To Date

Influential CADS case studies include the following:

How ideas about groups of people and race are constructed and disseminated through repeated language use (Krishnamurthy 1996).

A study of German loan words in English and their connection to cultural stereotyping (Stubbs 1998).

Analyses of the language of euro-sceptic debate in the UK (Teubert 2000).

The typical language strategies, metaphors and motifs used journalists and spokespersons in US press conferences, and how these reflect their respective world-views (Partington 2003, 2007).

How prediction is effected in economic texts, that is, how economic forecasts are presented and hedged (Walsh 2004).

How government witnesses in the Hutton Inquiry constructed their professional identity (Duguid 2007, 2008).

The CorDis project. How the conflict in Iraq was discussed and reported in the Senate and Parliament, in US press briefings and the Hutton Inquiry, in US/UK newspapers and TV news ( Marchi and Taylor forthcoming; Morley and Bayley 2009; Haarman and Lombardo forthcoming).

The Intune project 2004-9 (media linguists workgroup). An EU-funded venture to investigate how the press in France, Italy, Poland and the UK represent issues relating to European citizenship and identity .

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