A Useful Methodological Synergy?: Combining Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics to Examine Discourses of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK Press

Paul Baker; Costas Gabrielatos; Majid KhosraviNik; Michal Krzyzanowski; Anthony McEnery; Ruth Wodak

doi:10.1177/0957926508088962

A Useful Methodological Synergy? Combining Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics to Examine Discourses of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK Press

Paul Baker, Costas Gabrielatos, Majid KhosraviNik, Michal Krzyzanowski, Anthony McEnery, Ruth Wodak

School of Language, Literature, Music & Visual Culture

Northumbria University

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Abstract

This article discusses the extent to which methods normally associated with corpus linguistics can be effectively used by critical discourse analysts. Our research is based on the analysis of a 140-million-word corpus of British news articles about refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and migrants (collectively RASIM). We discuss how processes such as collocation and concordance analysis were able to identify common categories of representation of RASIM as well as directing analysts to representative texts in order to carry out qualitative analysis. The article suggests a framework for adopting corpus approaches in critical discourse analysis.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	273-306
Number of pages	34
Journal	Discourse & Society
Volume	19
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926508088962
Publication status	Published - May 2008

Keywords

asylum
critical discourse analysis
corpus
discourse historical approach
discrimination
method
migrants

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