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7 - Corpora and the Analysis of Discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2022

Susan Hunston
Susan Hunston
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University of Birmingham
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This is a chapter about ‘applications’, specifically the application of corpus linguistics to discourse analysis. The main topics addressed are the study of academic English, corpora and critical discourse analysis, and stylistics, with an additional section on specific kinds of discourse: health discourse, legal texts, and academic disciplines outside linguistics. The chapter emphasises the use of complementary methods, in particular the combination of top-down and bottom-up studies. The concepts introduced in previous studies, such as keyness, collocation and multidimensional analysis, are used here to explore areas such as differences between academic disciplines, the representation of people in newspapers, or the language of Dickens or Donald Trump.

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academic Englishcritical discourse analysisstylistics
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Corpora in Applied Linguistics , pp. 186 - 225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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