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Worthiness, unity, numbers and commitment: Strengthening qualitative corpus methods in the critical discourse analysis of protest press coverage
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
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| Author | Kennedy, Charlotte-Rose |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Abstract | The increasingly used method of corpus-assisted Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has recently been criticised for lacking identifiable and accountable methods in its qualitative analyses. For example, manual concordance analysis (a popular corpus technique involving the ‘close reading’ of text) rarely explicates the qualitative method involved – that is, if any has been used at all. This article seeks to strengthen qualitative concordance analysis in the context of the press representation of protests. In doing so, it theoretically formulates the novel linguistic application of Tilly’s sociological ‘WUNC’ framework, which argues protests and social movements are successful when they display worthiness, unity, numbers and commitment. By mapping prominent CDA theories onto Tilly’s definitions of worthiness, unity, numbers and commitment, the article offers a replicable qualitative approach to the analysis of concordances specific to linguistic research about the press representation of protests. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09579265221093650?download=true |
| Starting Page | 611 |
| Ending Page | 630 |
| Page Count | 20 |
| ISSN | 09579265 |
| Issue Number | 5 |
| Volume Number | 33 |
| Journal | Discourse & Society (DAS) |
| e-ISSN | 14603624 |
| DOI | 10.1177/09579265221093650 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2022-05-19 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2022 |
| Subject Keyword | protests WUNC Corpus linguistics critical discourse analysis manual concordance analysis press representation |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Communication Linguistics and Language |
