1st Edition
Analysing Representation A Corpus and Discourse Textbook
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.
1. Introduction
Charlotte Taylor and Frazer Heritage
2. Concordance lines: what are they and how can they be used to explore representation?
Matthew Gillings and Gerlinde Mautner
3. Collocates: what are they and how can they be used to explore representation?
Charlotte-Rose Kennedy, Gavin Brookes, and Anna Cherniaeva
4. Frequency and keyness: what are they and how can they be used to explore representation?
Pascual Perez-Paredes
5. Choosing and building corpora to investigate representation
Robbie Love and Lucia Busso
6. Annotation and mark up for representation analysis
Barbara De Cock, Philippe Hambye and Andrea Pizarro Pedraza
7. Investigating social actors with corpora
Laura Coffey-Glover
8. Investigating social actions (transitivity) with corpora
Sally Hunt
9. Investigating metaphor and representation with corpora
Mario Bisiada
10. Investigating indexicality and representation with corpora
Michael Handford and Zaina Al-Shahrani
11. Investigating discourse keywords with corpora
Melani Schröter
12. Comparing representations across corpora and discourses
Rachelle Vessey
13. Investigating representation in digital discourses
Luke C. Collins and Ekaterina Ignatova
14. Evaluating corpus and discourse work
Anna Marchi
Online Resources
Appendix 1: How to write up your representation research
Frazer Heritage and Charlotte Taylor
Appendix 2: FAQs in investigating representation using corpus and discourse methods
Charlotte Taylor and Frazer Heritage
Biography
Frazer Heritage is a lecturer in Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research focuses on corpus approaches to the representation of gender and sexuality across different forms of media, particularly within videogames and online communities. He is the author of the 2021 monograph Language, Gender and Videogames: Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames and the 2023 monograph Incels and Ideologies: Exploring How Incels Use Language to Construct Gender and Race.
Charlotte Taylor is Professor of Discourse and Persuasion at University of Sussex, UK. She has extensive experience in investigating representation using corpus and discourse methods, and her publications include Corpus Approaches to Discourse: A Critical Review (with Anna Marchi) and Patterns and Meanings in Discourse (with Alan Partington and Alison Duguid). Her areas of interest include migration discourses, rhetorics of nostalgia and metaphor as a persuasive tool.
"Written in an accessible and helpful style, this is a great textbook for anyone who wants to carry out analyses of representations and discourse on large collections of text. Concepts and techniques are clearly introduced and illustrated with engaging examples."
-- Paul Baker, Lancaster University“A great new introduction to the linguistic analysis of representation, with clear explanations of concepts and methods in both corpus and discourse analysis. Expertly edited and featuring multiple contributors, the book equips readers with the skills and knowledge they need to undertake their own systematic representation research. Welcome features include concise definitions of key skills and concepts, concrete case studies, independent task suggestions, and, in particular, valuable methodological reflection. Highly recommended for students and teachers alike, as it assumes little background knowledge and offers clear and consistent chapter structures throughout.”
-- Monika Bednarek, The University of Sydney
