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T1 - A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press.
AU - Baker, Paul
AU - Gabrielatos, Costas
AU - Khosravinik, Majid
AU - Krzyzanowski, Michal
AU - McEnery, Anthony M.
AU - Wodak, Ruth
PY - 2008/5
Y1 - 2008/5
N2 - This article discusses the extent to which methods normally associated with corpus linguistics can be effectively used by critical discourse analysts. Our research is based on the analysis of a 140-million-word corpus of British news articles about refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and migrants (collectively RASIM). We discuss how processes such as collocation and concordance analysis were able to identify common categories of representation of RASIM as well as directing analysts to representative texts in order to carry out qualitative analysis. The article suggests a framework for adopting corpus approaches in critical discourse analysis.
AB - This article discusses the extent to which methods normally associated with corpus linguistics can be effectively used by critical discourse analysts. Our research is based on the analysis of a 140-million-word corpus of British news articles about refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and migrants (collectively RASIM). We discuss how processes such as collocation and concordance analysis were able to identify common categories of representation of RASIM as well as directing analysts to representative texts in order to carry out qualitative analysis. The article suggests a framework for adopting corpus approaches in critical discourse analysis.
KW - asylum • critical discourse analysis • corpus • discourse historical approach • discrimination • method • migrants
KW - Corpus methodology
KW - CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
U2 - 10.1177/0957926508088962
DO - 10.1177/0957926508088962
M3 - Journal article
VL - 19
SP - 273
EP - 306
JO - Discourse and Society
JF - Discourse and Society
SN - 0957-9265
IS - 3
ER -