Corpus-assisted discourse studies on the Iraq Conflict [ wording the war
Politics, like religion and education, is one of those spheres of institutional life in which language is largely, although not exclusively, constitutive of its actions. This title illustrates the fundamental role of language in political action, focusing the war in Iraq.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledg ,
c2009
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| Series: | Routledge advances in corpus linguistics
10 |
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| Online Access: | NetLibrary |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The making of the CorDis corpus : compilation and markup
- 2. Strict vs. nurturant parents? A corpus-assisted study of congressional positioning on the war in Iraq
- 3. 'Just war', or just 'war' : arguments for doing the 'right thing'
- 4. White House press briefings as a message to the world
- 5. Positioning and stance in TV news reporting of the 2003 Iraq War : the anchor on CBS and the news presenter on BBC
- 6. 'Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists' : how UK and US television news reported the 2003 Iraq Conflict
- 7. Editorials and opinion articles in the CorDis corpus : a transversal study
- 8. Interacting with conflicting goals : facework and impoliteness in hostile cross-examination
- 9. Insistent voices : government messages
- 10. Evaluating evaluation and some concluding thoughts on CADS