Corpora and Discourse Studies ― Integrating Discourse and Corpora

The growing availability of large collections of language texts has expanded our horizons for language analysis, enabling the swift analysis of millions of words of data, aided by computational methods. This edited collection contains examples of such contemporary research which uses corpus linguistics to carry out discourse analysis. The book takes an inclusive view of the meaning of discourse, covering different text-types or modes of language, including discourse as both social practice and as ideology or representation. Authors examine a range of spoken, written, multimodal and electronic corpora covering themes which include health, academic writing, social class, ethnicity, gender, television narrative, news, Early Modern English and political speech. The chapters showcase the variety of qualitative and quantitative tools and methods that this new generation of discourse analysts are combining together, offering a set of compelling models for future corpus-based research in discourse.

Paul Baker is Professor of English Language at Lancaster University, UK. His research involves applications of corpus linguistics and his recent books include Using Corpora to Analyze Gender (2014), Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes (2013) and Sociolinguistics and Corpus Linguistics (2010). He is the commissioning editor of the journal Corpora.

Tony McEnery is Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. His research involves applications of corpus linguistics, particularly in the social sciences. He is currently Director of the 'Corpus Approaches to Social Science' Research Centre (CASS) at Lancaster University, funded by the UK's Economic and Social Research Council. His latest book is Corpus Linguistics: Method Theory and Practice (2012), with Andrew Hardie.