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Techniki językoznawstwa korpusowego wykorzystywane w krytycznej analizie dyskursu. Przegląd
Corpus Linguistics Techniques Used for Critical Discourse Analysis. An overview

Author(s): Victoria Kamasa
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Łódzki - Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny
Keywords: Critical Discourse Analysis; corpus methods; collocation; key words; collocations; concordances

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims to present corpus methods most commonly used in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The issues of corpus design for CDA will be discussed and methods frequently used in such analysis will be presented: frequency lists, keywords, collocations, and concordances. Moreover, examples of research using this methods will be overviewed to provide an account of the variety of subjects and conclusions the discussed methods might lead to. The paper will conclude with some remarks on benefits and costs related to the usage of corpus methods in CDA.

  • Issue Year: X/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 100-117
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish