1st Edition
Corpus Approaches to Discourse A Critical Review
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: Partiality & reflexivity - Anna Marchi & Charlotte Taylor
A. Overlooked areas (checking the dusty corners)
2. Similarity – Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex)
3. Using corpus linguistics to investigate absence/s: You don’t know what you’re missing. Or do you? – Alison Duguid (University of Siena) & Alan Partington (University of Bologna)
4. Overlooked text types: from fictional texts to real world discourses – Alon Lischinsky (Oxford Brookes University)
B. Triangulation (identifying blind spots)
5. Analysing the multimodal text - Helen Caple (University of New South Wales)
6. Using multiple datasets – Sylvia Jaworska (University of Reading) & Karen Kinloch (Lancaster University)
7. Interdisciplinary approaches in corpus linguistics & CADS – Clyde Ancarno (Kings College London)
C. Research design (avoiding pitfalls / re-examining the foundations)
8. The role of the text in corpus and discourse analysis: Missing the trees for the forest – Jesse Egbert & Erin Schnur (Northern Arizona University)
9. Dividing up the data: epistemological, methodological and practical impact
of diachronic segmentation – Anna Marchi (University of Bologna)
10. Visualization in corpus-based discourse studies - Laurence Anthony (Waseda University)
11. Keyness analysis: nature, metrics & techniques – Costas Gabrielatos (Edgehill University)
12. Statistical choices in corpus-based discourse analysis – Vaclav Brezina (Lancaster University)
13. Conclusion: Reflecting on reflective research – Paul Baker (Lancaster University)
14. Index
Biography
Charlotte Taylor is Senior Lecturer at the University of Sussex. She is author of Mock Politeness in English and Italian (2016), co-author of Patterns and Meanings in Discourse (with Alan Partington and Alison Duguid, 2013) and The Language of Persuasion in Politics (with Alan Partington, 2017) and co-editor of Exploring Silence and Absence in Discourse (with Melani Schroeter, 2018). Anna Marchi is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Bologna. She is the author of Self-reflexive Journalism: A Corpus Study of Journalistic Culture and Community in The Guardian (Routledge, forthcoming).
