Discursive Constructions of the Environment in American Presidential Speeches 1960–2013: A Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Study

Bevitori, Cinzia

doi:10.1057/9781137431738_6

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“…Although a corpus of linguistic data does not in itself provide any new information, the application of corpus-linguistic analytical tools can provide ‘a new perspective on the familiar’ (Hunston, 2002). Moreover, the balanced application of quantitative corpus-linguistic methods together with CDA enables linguistic analysts to make richer observations than are normally possible using basic qualitative or quantitative methods of text analysis (Baker, 2010; Baker et al, 2008; Bevitori, 2010, 2015; Fløttum et al, 2014; Kim, 2014; Partington, 2004, 2015).…”

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A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of news reporting on China’s air pollution in the official Chinese English-language press

Wang

2018

Discourse & Communication

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This corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of news reports on air pollution published from 2008 through 2015 by China Daily, China’s largest official English-language newspaper, reveals a significant attitudinal shift around the end of 2011 as regards public awareness of increasing air pollution levels in China and related public criticism. It also constructs a clear image of the increasing determination and resolve of the Chinese central government over the course of this 8-year period to take action to effectively reduce air pollution. This study highlights the submissive role played by the official Chinese press in their reporting on air pollution under the strict censorship system of the Communist Party of China (CPC), as well as the socio-political role that international sporting events such as the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games played in raising both public and governmental awareness of environmental issues.

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A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of news reporting on China’s air pollution in the official Chinese English-language press

Wang

2018

Discourse & Communication

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“…A corpus-assisted discourse study (CADS) approach is adopted for this study. The application of corpus linguistic methods to environmental communication studies has become increasingly popular in recent years, as can be witnessed in the growing literature in this area (Alexander, 2010; Bevitori, 2010, 2015; Grundmann and Krishnamurthy, 2010; Koteyko, 2010; Nerlich et al, 2012). However, most of these studies, as Baker et al (2008) argue, fail to present a ‘synergy’ of corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis, with only a few exceptions (Bevitori, 2010, 2015; Fløttum et al, 2014).…”

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Competing discursive constructions of China’s smog in Chinese and Anglo-American English-language newspapers: A corpus-assisted discourse study

Liu

2017

Discourse & Communication

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This article presents a corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of China’s smog in one Chinese (i.e. China Daily) and three Anglo-American (i.e. The New York Times, The Times and The Guardian) English-language newspapers from 2011 to 2014. The findings suggest that they converge in representing China’s smog as a kind of severe air pollution that has some consequences on residents in China and poses a problem that the government must tackle. However, the Chinese English-language newspaper prefers to represent it as a kind of weather phenomenon without serious impact on public health and to construct a positive and responsible image of the Chinese central government. The Anglo-American English-language newspapers are inclined to dramatize it as a disaster with a huge health impact, and construct a negative image of the Chinese government with a view to pressurizing it to take responsibility in the context of climate change.

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“…Therefore, the study resorts to the balanced application of quantitative corpus-linguistic methods together with CDA to make richer observations than are normally possible using basic qualitative or quantitative methods of text analysis [1,3,24,34].…”

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The Ideological Functions of the Disclaim Resources in Press Conferences

Lin,

Yang

2024

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In Critical Discourse Analysis, appraisal system has been of ideological interest because it concerns the language expression closely related to values. When answering questions in press conference, many appraisal resources are used by speakers to express their own stances on important issues and persuade the journalists and the public. This article focuses on the disclaim resources within the appraisal framework, and analyzes their ideological functions in press conferences. Specifically, using a corpus of 100 transcriptions of press conferences as data, this study investigates the discursive function of disclaim and stance-taking realized by disclaim in press conferences from an ideological dimension. It can be found that deny is always widely employed together with counter to reject and replace the point of view, and thus realize the discourse function of counter-expectancy and information modification. Through disclaim, such evaluative stances, including but not limited to reminding, warning, dissuading, prohibiting, questioning, opposing, refusing and criticizing are expressed. The stance-taking realized by disclaim could help the speaker to show his or her positions in a more covert way, so as to establish and maintain power relationships. Therefore, the employment of disclaim in press conferences really carries strong ideological implications and the thorough analysis of the disclaim resources could provide some implications for Critical Discourse Analysis. Besides, from the study we can see that spokesman could use a lot of language resources to emphasize his or her own stances, and thus to convince the audience. Therefore, this study could provide some implications for spokesman of press conferences, especially for government spokesman to effectively communicate with the audience and achieve a more harmonious communication.

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Discursive Constructions of the Environment in American Presidential Speeches 1960–2013: A Diachronic Corpus-Assisted Study

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of news reporting on China’s air pollution in the official Chinese English-language press

A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of news reporting on China’s air pollution in the official Chinese English-language press

Competing discursive constructions of China’s smog in Chinese and Anglo-American English-language newspapers: A corpus-assisted discourse study

The Ideological Functions of the Disclaim Resources in Press Conferences

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