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Title Corpus-assisted discourse studies on the Iraq Conflict : wording the war / edited by John Morley and Paul Bayley
Published New York : Routledge, 2009

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Series Routledge advances in corpus linguistics ; 10
Routledge advances in corpus linguistics ; 10.
Contents The making of the CorDis corpus : compilation and markup / Letizia Cirillo, Anna Marchi, and Marco Venuti -- Strict vs. nurturant parents? A corpus-assisted study of congressional positioning on the war in Iraq / Donna R. Miller and Jane H. Johnson -- 'Just war', or just 'war' : arguments for doing the 'right thing' / Paul Bayley and Cinzia Bevitori -- White House press briefings as a message to the world / Giulia Riccio -- Positioning and stance in TV news reporting of the 2003 Iraq War : the anchor on CBS and the news presenter on BBC / Linda Lombardo -- 'Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists' : how UK and US television news reported the 2003 Iraq Conflict / Caroline Clark -- Editorials and opinion articles in the CorDis corpus : a transversal study / Amanda C. Murphy -- Interacting with conflicting goals : facework and impoliteness in hostile cross-examination / Charlotte Taylor -- Insistent voices : government messages / Alison Duguid -- Evaluating evaluation and some concluding thoughts on CADS / Alan Partington
Summary This volume illustrates the role of language in political action by analyzing the discourse of various British and US institutions on the war in Iraq. It combines quantitative methods, based on a sophisticated modular corpus in order to identify regularly occurring lexical and semantic patterns, and qualitative context-based discourse analysis
Notes Title from PDF title page (viewed October 1, 2009)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Discourse analysis -- Political aspects
Corpora (Linguistics)
Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Language
REFERENCE.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Vocabulary.
Corpora (Linguistics)
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects
Language and languages
Golfkrieg 2003
Medien
Korpus Linguistik
Iraq
Form Electronic book
Author Morley, John, 1940 December 17-
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