Corpus approaches to critical discourse studies

Publications

Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C. & McEnery, T. (under revision). Sketching Muslims: A corpus-driven analysis of representation around the word “Muslim” in the British press, 1998-2009. Applied Linguistics.

Baker, P., Gabrielatos, C. & McEnery, T. (in preparation). Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The representation of Islam in the British press. Cambridge University Press. [Projected publication date: October 2012].

Baker, P., Gabrielatos C., Khosravinik, M., Krzyzanowski, M., McEnery, T. & Wodak, R. (2008). A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press. Discourse & Society 19(3), 273-305. [Also translated in Spanish ]

Gabrielatos, C. & Baker, P. (2008). Fleeing, sneaking, flooding: A corpus analysis of discursive constructions of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK Press 1996-2005. Journal of English Linguistics 36(1), 5-38.

Conference Presentations

Gabrielatos, C., Baker, P. & McEnery, T. (2010). Using Sketch Engine to examine the presentation of Islam and Muslims in the UK press. 43rd Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL), 9-11 September 2010, University of Aberdeen.

Baker, P. & Gabrielatos, C. (2008). Representations of Islam in the British and American press 1999-2005. 7th Conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2008), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 13-15 March 2008. [Abstract: (pp. 17-18); slides ]

Baker, P., Gabrielatos C., & McEnery, T. (2008). Using collocational profiling to investigate the construction of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the UK press. 7th Conference of the American Association for Corpus Linguistics (AACL 2008), Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, 13-15 March 2008. [Abstract: (pp. 18-19); slides ]

Baker, P., McEnery, T. & Gabrielatos, C. (2007). Using collocation analysis to reveal the construction of minority groups: The case of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the UK press. Corpus Linguistics 2007, University of Birmingham, 28-30 July 2007.

Gabrielatos, C. & Baker, P. (2006). Representation of refugees and asylum seekers in UK newspapers: Towards a corpus-based analysis. Joint Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics and the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL/IRAAL 2006), University College, Cork, Ireland, 7-9 September 2006.

Gabrielatos, C. & Baker, P. (2006). Representation of refugees and asylum seekers in UK newspapers: Towards a corpus-based comparison of the stance of tabloids and broadsheets. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD 2006), University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, 29-30 June 2006.

Invited Presentations

Gabrielatos, C., Baker, P. & McEnery, T. (2011). The presentation of Muslims in the UK press: A case study of the adjective Muslim. Invited presentation. Symposium on Language, Politics and Religion. Lancaster University, 7 September 2011.

Baker, P. & Gabrielatos, C. (2009). Construction of refugees and asylum seekers in British newspapers, 1996-2005: A corpus-based approach. Invited presentation. Language Ideology and Power Research Group (LIP) Special Symposium: “The politics of exclusion” – investigating issues of racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia…, 9 February 2009.

Gabrielatos, C. (2009). Corpus-based methodology and critical discourse studies: Context, content, computation. Invited presentation. Siena English Language and Linguistics Seminars (SELLS), University of Siena, 9 November 2009.

Gabrielatos, C. (2008). Collocational analysis as a gateway to critical discourse analysis: The case of the construction of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in the UK press. Invited presentation, English Language Institute, University of Michigan, 10 March 2008.