“…Recently, corpusbased techniques have been used to investigate the discourse of politically and ethically contested issues in the public sphere in the UK and internationally, e.g. : the New Labour administration (Fairclough 2000), educational governance (Mulderigg, 2003(Mulderigg, , 2011a(Mulderigg, , 2011b, refugees and asylum seekers (Baker 2010, Baker and McEnery 2005, diversity in US immigration legislation (Gales, 2009), bilingualism and national identity in Quebec (Freake et al 2011) and signifiers of radical Islam (Salama, 2011). As well as using a corpus-based methodology, these studies engage in the critical analysis of documentary evidence without adhering strictly to any singular CDA framework (e.g.…”