Analysing Representation

A Corpus and Discourse Textbook

Frazer Heritage, Charlotte Taylor

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Routledge
31 May 2024

Sociolinguistics; Semantics

Analysing Representation: A Corpus and Discourse Textbook guides readers through the process of researching how people and phenomena are represented in discourse and introduces them to key tools they can use from corpus linguistics and (critical) discourse analysis. This book takes a step-by-step approach to introducing each concept and includes exercises and further reading to help readers check their progress and prepare for independent research. It is unique in introducing readers to a range of experts representing the full range of work in this area. This book is aimed at final-year undergraduate, taught postgraduate and doctoral level students. It wil also be useful to scholars who are new to combining corpus and discourse methods in investigations of representation.

Edited by: Frazer Heritage, Charlotte Taylor
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781032397030
ISBN 10: 1032397039
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 31 May 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction Charlotte Taylor and Frazer Heritage 2. Concordance lines: what are they and how can they be used to explore representation? Matthew Gillings and Gerlinde Mautner 3. Collocates: what are they and how can they be used to explore representation? Charlotte-Rose Kennedy, Gavin Brookes, and Anna Cherniaeva 4. Frequency and keyness: what are they and how can they be used to explore representation? Pascual Perez-Paredes 5. Choosing and building corpora to investigate representation Robbie Love and Lucia Busso 6. Annotation and mark up for representation analysis Barbara De Cock, Philippe Hambye and Andrea Pizarro Pedraza 7. Investigating social actors with corpora Laura Coffey-Glover 8. Investigating social actions (transitivity) with corpora Sally Hunt 9. Investigating metaphor and representation with corpora Mario Bisiada 10. Investigating indexicality and representation with corpora Michael Handford and Zaina Al-Shahrani 11. Investigating discourse keywords with corpora Melani Schröter 12. Comparing representations across corpora and discourses Rachelle Vessey 13. Investigating representation in digital discourses Luke C. Collins and Ekaterina Ignatova 14. Evaluating corpus and discourse work Anna Marchi Online Resources Appendix 1: How to write up your representation research Frazer Heritage and Charlotte Taylor Appendix 2: FAQs in investigating representation using corpus and discourse methods Charlotte Taylor and Frazer Heritage

Frazer Heritage is a lecturer in Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research focuses on corpus approaches to the representation of gender and sexuality across different forms of media, particularly within videogames and online communities. He is the author of the 2021 monograph Language, Gender and Videogames: Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames and the 2023 monograph Incels and Ideologies: Exploring How Incels Use Language to Construct Gender and Race. Charlotte Taylor is Professor of Discourse and Persuasion at University of Sussex, UK. She has extensive experience in investigating representation using corpus and discourse methods, and her publications include Corpus Approaches to Discourse: A Critical Review (with Anna Marchi) and Patterns and Meanings in Discourse (with Alan Partington and Alison Duguid). Her areas of interest include migration discourses, rhetorics of nostalgia and metaphor as a persuasive tool.

Reviews for Analysing Representation: A Corpus and Discourse Textbook

"""Written in an accessible and helpful style, this is a great textbook for anyone who wants to carry out analyses of representations and discourse on large collections of text. Concepts and techniques are clearly introduced and illustrated with engaging examples."" --Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK"