Searching for similarity using corpus-assisted discourse studies
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: It has often been noted that corpus-assisted discourse analysis is inherently comparative (e.g., Partington, 2009 ), but, in this paper, I want to emphasise that such comparison does not exclusively entail the analysis of difference and that the analysis of similarity can be productively incorporated into the framework. As Baker (2006 : 182) notes, the way that differences and similarities interact with each other is ‘an essential part of any comparative corpus-based study of discourse’. In this paper, first, I outline why the search for similarity is relevant to the analysis of discourse using corpus linguistics; I then go on to assess some possible ways of doing this; and, finally, I take the representation of boy/s and girl/s in British broadsheet newspapers as an example.
Source: Corpora
Author: Charlotte Taylor
Institution: University of Portsmouth
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2087541431