Gebundenes Buch

Analysing Representation

A Corpus and Discourse Textbook

Herausgegeben: Heritage, Frazer; Taylor, Charlotte

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 453g
• ISBN-13: 9781032397030
• ISBN-10: 1032397039
• Artikelnr.: 70147724