Manufacturing Consent: A Corpus‐Based Critical Discourse Analysis of New Labour's Educational Governance

Exploring the construction of the Irish Mammy in ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’

“…Firstly, the analysis may start from the corpus making use of corpus software such as WordSmith Tools (Scott 2012) to access the data and identify areas for further exploration, as may occur, for instance, in an analysis which is driven by a keyword comparison (Culpeper 2009). Secondly, the analysis may start with a discourse analytic frame and collect corpus data, which is then interpreted and categorised through that frame (Mulderrig 2011). In this study, the first approach, which centres the starting point around corpus-based tools and methodologies, is adopted.…”

The discourse of Olympic security: London 2012

“…Distinctive statements emerge within our corpus relating to the identification and assessment of possible dangers facing the 2012 Games. For example, the following passage from a core text includes several closely packed linguistic indicators of the strategy of prediction, embedded within a wider ranging language of contemporary 'governance' (Mulderigg, 2011a;2011b) .…”

Citizenship, community, and counter-terrorism

“…2003, 2009b, 2009c, 2011b documents emerged as prototypical PVE documents due to the frequency of the search terms 'security', 'terrorism' within the text itself, and their prominence on the websites of multiple government agencies. By contrast, documents in the series Understanding Muslim Ethnic Communities (DLGC, 2009) were discarded not only because as they were demographic surveys and not policy documents per se, but also because the series followed a rather repetitious formula which would have distorted our statistical analysis.…”

“…Baker, 2010, Freake et al, 2011, Mulderigg, 2003, 2011a, 2011b, a statistical analysis of lexical trends in each sub-corpus was carried out using the keywords programme in Wordsmith Tools (Scott, 2008). In order to make the keyword analysis historically revealing, the frequency of words in the CCC ('test' ) subcorpus was compared with that of the PVE ('reference') sub-corpus, and vice-versa.…”