From `Politically Correct Councillors' to `Blairite Nonsense': Discourses of `Political Correctness' in Three British Newspapers

Johnson, Sally; Culpeper, Jonathan; Suhr, Stephanie

doi:10.1177/0957926503014001928

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“…What if one simply selects a huge multi-genre corpus, such as the British National Corpus, as indeed other studies have done (e.g. Tribble 2000;Scott 2000;Johnson et al 2003)? In this case we can readily hypothesize that some genres within that corpus have a relatively close relationship with the data to be examined, but other genres have a relatively distant relationship.…”

Section: What Decisions Need To Be Made In Performing a Keyword Analymentioning

confidence: 97%

Keyness

Culpeper

2009

IJCL

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This paper explores keywords, key part-of-speech categories and key semantic categories and their role in text analysis. The first part of the paper addresses a set of issues relating to the definition of keywords and their history, the settings used in deriving keywords, the choice of reference corpora, the different kinds of keyword that emerge in one's results and the dispersion of keywords in one's data. It argues, amongst other things, that keywords are the same as style markers, and that three types of keyword can be identified: interpersonal, textual and ideational. The second part of the paper addresses the question of what precisely is to be gained from analysing key part-of-speech or key semantic domains in addition to keywords. It shows that whilst in general they add little to a keyword analysis, which is in any case methodologically more robust, there are some significant specific benefits. Answers to many of the questions posed in this paper are illustrated by a study of character-talk from Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, and in this way this paper also makes a contribution to the fledging field of corpus stylistics.

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Section: What Decisions Need To Be Made In Performing a Keyword Analymentioning

confidence: 97%

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Culpeper

2009

IJCL

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“…There have been successful attempts to meld word-frequency and proximity-based analyses of massive amounts of texts such as automated sematic tagging (Johnson et al 2003;Prentice 2010) with discourse analysis. The automated approach provides analytical results that have benefited from its ability to analyze ''representative'' volumes of text while preserving the ability of discourse analysts to examine texts in context and allowing one to examine the most prominent themes more closely (Prentice 2010).…”

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Framing in Legislation: The Case of Population Policy in the Philippines

David

Atun

Viña

2011

Popul Res Policy Rev

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This paper investigates the political framing of population in policy discourse through an analysis of legislative documents. Semantic network analysis was conducted and results were interpreted through discourse analysis of the typical arguments identified. Policy texts were classified into three sets: population management, reproductive health and family planning, and anti-abortion and anti-FP. While the ''population management'' frame focuses on social and economic consequences of population growth, the ''reproductive health'' frame defines the problem from a health perspective. Both policies propose aggressive FP programs but each frame uses distinct political rhetoric and semantic approach in its arguments. The ''anti-abortion and anti-FP'' frame identifies two problems: rise in incidence of abortion and existing policy that prohibit health professionals from refusing patients information on contraception. By invoking a moral argument and anchoring on rights, these policies challenge the problem and solutions identified by the first two frames.

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“…Corpus linguistics has been increasingly used in critical discourse studies to examine the discursive events of politics (Johnson et al, 2003;Prentice, 2010), religion (Salama, 2011), climate (Koteyko, 2010), refugees (Baker, 2008) and gender issues (Page, 2003;Jaworska & Krishnamurthy, 2012), uncovering the existence of language patterns and messages otherwise unobserved. As Cheng & Lam (2013, p. 177) noted that in critical analysis of media discourse, "discursive events regarding dominance and inequality", "language use for manipulative purposes", "discriminatory discursive practices" and "national conflict" are favorite sites of research.…”

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A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Media Representations of the Chinese Dream

Hou¹

2016

IJEL

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The Chinese dream describing a set of ideals received numerous media reports after its proclamation by Chinese President Xi Jinping in November 2012. Making use of the rich source of media data, this article explores the ideology and ideals of the Chinese Dream represented in China's state-run English-language newspapers. Modeled on the approach of corpus-driven discourse studies and combining the theoretical framework and methodological approaches of Critical Discourse Analysis and corpus linguistics, this study attempts to yield new insights into the media representations of the Chinese Dream. A corpus of the Chinese dream is analyzed using software Concgram (Greaves, 2009) by creating information on the frequency distribution regarding the most frequently occurring two-word/three-word concgrams, and related concordance lines. Findings shown Chinese President Xi's speech on the Chinese Dream has strong control of ideological positions in media representations.

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From `Politically Correct Councillors' to `Blairite Nonsense': Discourses of `Political Correctness' in Three British Newspapers

Cited by 40 publications

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Framing in Legislation: The Case of Population Policy in the Philippines

A Corpus-Driven Analysis of Media Representations of the Chinese Dream

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