|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewThis volume contains a collection of papers pertaining to the SiBol corpora, which consist of British broadsheet newspapers from the years 1993 and 2005. In order to examine diachronic variation, the papers compare the two sets of corpora using techniques such as keyword analyses, and targeted searches of terms like moral, ethics and science. The papers are from the field of Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies (CADS) which combines a quantitative, statistical approach with a more qualitative approach typical of discourse analysis. Using such large corpora, the authors are able to study not only grammatical developments over time but also variations in lexical and phrasal preferences. This enables us to observe changes in newspaper prose style over the period (which reflect shifting relationships between newspapers and their readerships as well as perhaps overall changes in language) and also perform various sorts of content analyses, that is, examine new - and older - attitudes to social cultural and political phenomenon, as construed and projected by the mainstream UK quality (or 'blacktop') press. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alan PartingtonPublisher: Edinburgh University Press Imprint: Edinburgh University Press Dimensions: Width: 17.20cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 24.40cm Weight: 0.326kg ISBN: 9780748640607ISBN 10: 0748640606 Pages: 128 Publication Date: 14 February 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationAlan Partington is Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Modern languages and Foreign Literatures at the University of Bologna. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |