Analysing Representation
A Corpus and Discourse Textbook
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Analysing Representation: A Corpus and Discourse Textbook guides readers through the process of researching how people and phenomena are represented in discourse and introduces them to key tools they can use from corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis. This book takes a step-by-step approach to introducing each concept and includes exercises and further reading to help readers check their progress and prepare for independent research. It is unique in introducing readers to a range of experts representing the full range of work in this area. This book is aimed at final-year undergraduate, taught postgraduate and doctoral level students. It wil also be useful to scholars who are new to combining corpus and discourse methods in investigations of representation.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Endorsement Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Concordance lines: What are they and how can they be used to explore representation?
- 3 Collocates: What are they and how can they be used to explore representation?
- 4 Frequency and keyness: What are they and how can they be used to explore representation?
- 5 Choosing and building corpora to investigate representation
- 6 Annotation and mark up for representation analysis
- 7 Investigating social actors with corpora
- 8 Investigating social actions (transitivity) with corpora
- 9 Investigating metaphor and representation with corpora
- 10 Investigating indexicality and representation with corpora
- 11 Investigating discourse keywords with corpora
- 12 Comparing representations across corpora and discourses
- 13 Investigating representation in digital discourses
- 14 Evaluating corpus and discourse work
- Index
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