This book examines approaches to carrying out discourse analysis (DA) using techniques that are grounded in corpus linguistics. Assuming no prior knowledge of corpora, the book examines and evaluates a variety of corpus-based methodologies including: collocations, keyness, concordances, dispersion plots, and building and annotating corpora. Illustrated with a number of real-life examples of corpus-based DA from a range of sources and covering a variety of subjects, this is an informative introduction to using corpus linguistics as a methodology in discourse analysis.
Chapter 1 - Introduction; Introduction / Corpus Linguistics / Discourse / The Shift to Post Structuralism / Advantages of the corpus-based approach to discourse analysis / Reducing Researcher Bias / The incremental effect of Discourse / Resistant and changing discourses / Triangulation / Some concerns / Structure of the book / Notes; Chapter 2 - Corpus Building. Introduction / Some types of corpora / Capturing data / Scanning and keying in / Spoken Texts / Online texts / Permissions / Annotation / Using a Reference Corpus / Conclusions / Notes; Chapter 3 - Frequency and Dispersion; Introduction / Join the Club / Frequency Counts / Considering Clusters / Dispersion Plots / Comparing demographic frequencies/Conclusions/Notes; Chapter 4 - Concordances; Introduction / Investigating discourses of refugees / Sorting concordances / Analysing the remainder / Semantic preference and discourse parody / Points of concerns / Step by step guide to concordance analysis / Notes; Chapter 5 - Collates; Introduction / Deriving Collocates / Identifying discourses from collocates / Resistant discourses / Collocational networks / Step by step guide to collocational analysis / Notes; Chapter 6 - Beyond Collocation; Introduction / Nominalization / Searching with grammatical tags / Collocations of grammatical forms / Modality / Attribution / Metaphor / Further directions / Notes; Chapter 7 - Keyness; Frequency revisited / Introducing Keyness / Analysis of keywords / Using a reference corpus / Key clusters / Key categories / Possible uses of key words / Conclusion / Notes; Chapter 8 - Conclusion; Corpus building / Corpus analysis / Notes.
