Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies on the Iraq Conflict: Wording the War

By Paul Bayley

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415871379
• ISBN13: 9780415871372
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"