Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale-the computer-aided
analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook …

Discourse analysis is interested, among other things, in the organizational structures of texts,
how conversations are managed, and how different modes of communication combine with …

In 2015, Europe faced the arrival of over 1.25 million refugees fleeing from war-affected
countries. The public mainly learned about this issue through domestic media. Through the …

The nature, location, and dynamic of discursive power in Social Media, or broadly speaking
the participatory web, are fluid, changeable, and non-static. Social Media provides all forms …

Studies of the impact of the mainstream mass media on young people's sexual behavior
have been slow to accumulate despite longstanding evidence of substantial sexual content …

This paper aims to cast light on contemporary migration rhetoric by integrating historical
discourse analysis. I focus on continuity and change in conventionalised metaphorical …

The paper is a CDA investigation on discursive strategies employed by various British
newspapers between 1996–2006 in the ways they represent refugees, asylum seekers and …

When the Muslim fundamentalist Mohammed Bouyeri murdered the Dutch film director Theo
van Gogh in November 2004, this sparked off an intense and heated debate in the …

Public opposition to immigration in Britain reflects perceptions of immigrants that focus
disproportionately on “illegal” immigration and asylum seekers, rather than more numerous …

This introductory textbook presents a variety of approaches and perspectives that can be
employed to analyze any sample of discourse. The perspectives come from multiple …