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CORPUS-ASSISTED DISCOURSE STUDIES ON THE IRAQ CONFLICT
WORDING THE WAR |
| By: |
John Morley (Editor), Paul Bayley (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415871379 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415871372 |
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| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
17 September, 2009 |
| Series: |
Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics |
| Pages: |
350 |
| Description: |
Politics, like religion and education, is one of those spheres of institutional life in which language is largely, although not exclusively, constitutive of its actions. This title illustrates the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing the war in Iraq. |
| Synopsis: |
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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36 black & white tables, 50 black & white line drawings |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Routledge |
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Returnable |