This paper focuses upon two issues. Firstly, the question of identifying diachronic trends, and more importantly significant outliers, in corpora which permit an investigation of a feature at many sampling points over time. Secondly, we consider how best to combine more qualitatively oriented approaches to corpus data with the type of trends that can be observed in a corpus using quantitative techniques. The work uses a recently completed ESRC-funded project as a case study, the representation of Islam in the UK press, in order to demonstrate the potential of the approach taken to establishing significant peaks in diachronic frequency development, and the fruitful interface that may be created between qualitative and quantitative techniques.
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2019. The Value of Revisiting and Extending Previous Studies: The Case of Islam in the UK Press. In Quantifying Approaches to Discourse for Social Scientists [Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse, ], ► pp. 215 ff.
Bednarek, Monika & Georgia Carr
2020. Diabetes coverage in Australian newspapers (2013‐2017): A computer‐based linguistic analysis. Health Promotion Journal of Australia 31:3 ► pp. 497 ff.
Clarke, Isobelle, Gavin Brookes & Tony McEnery
2022. Keywords through time. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 27:4 ► pp. 399 ff.
Currie, John S. G. & Ben Clarke
2022. Fighting talk. Journal of Language and Politics 21:4 ► pp. 589 ff.
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2023. Climate change in the UK press: Examining discourse fluctuation over time. Applied Linguistics
Mou, Wenlong, Ni Sun, Junhao Zhang, Zhixuan Yang & Junfeng Hu
2015. Politicize and Depoliticize: A Study of Semantic Shifts on People’s Daily Fifty Years’ Corpus via Distributed Word Representation Space. In Chinese Lexical Semantics [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9332], ► pp. 438 ff.
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Owen, Thomas & Taylor Annabell
2018. The Panama Papers in New Zealand media: A modern diachronic corpus assisted discourse study. Discourse, Context & Media 24 ► pp. 117 ff.
2019. Epistemic stance and the construction of knowledge in science writing: A diachronic corpus study. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 42 ► pp. 100784 ff.
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