Essays about: "Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis"

Showing result 11 - 13 of 13 essays containing the words Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis.

1. 11. Collocates of trans, transgender(s) and transexual(s) in British Newspapers: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis

   University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Kajsa Törmä; [2018]
   Keywords : CDA; Corpus Linguistics; Newspaper Discourse; Semantic Prosodies; Transgender;

   Abstract : Through their coverage in the mass media transgender people and the trans rights movement have only recently stepped into the public eye. Because this emergence is so recent, it has not been widely studied within the field of linguistics. READ MORE

3. 12. Ukrainian Language Policy: The Status of Russian in English Language Medium Ukrainian and Russian Newspapers and in the Linguistic Landscape of Four Regions

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Svetlana L'Nyavskiy; [2016]
   Keywords : language policy; corpus-assisted discourse study CADS; Ukraine; Russia; linguistic landscape; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Following a long-standing sociolinguistic pursuit to investigate language policy through complex non-linear models that analyze historical, structural, political and social processes that produce, contextualize, circulate and negotiate particular ideologies, beliefs and myths about languages and their values through meaning-making activities, this master’s thesis aims to apply an interpretive approach to corpus-assisted discourse analysis and appropriate elements of nexus analysis to an investigation of the status of the Russian in the language policy of Ukraine during the period of 2010 to 2015. Regarding language policies as a complex social phenomenon, this study of Ukrainian monolingual language policy is focused on investigating nexuses involving policymaking, its interpretation by various political players, and implementation aiming to answer the question of how established and circulating discourses mediate, negotiate and regulate relations between Ukrainian and Russian languages. READ MORE

4. 13. Barack Obama’s identity-building in the health care debate: A corpus-assisted discourse study

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Katherina Riesner; [2016]
   Keywords : Discursive identities; corpus linguistics; discourse analysis; strategic maneuvering; Affordable Care Act; epistemic verbs; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : In this study, I demonstrate that identity-building is an important discursive strategy for President Barack Obama in the seven-year long debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The data for the study comes from a 6-million word corpus of speeches that were held by Obama between January 2009 and January 2016, all published by the White House. READ MORE