Crime and Corpus

The linguistic representation of crime in the press

Author

Ulrike Tabbert | University of Huddersfield

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Reports on crime in newspapers do not provide a neutral representation of criminals and their offences but instead construct them in accordance with societal discourse surrounding this issue. This book takes an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of Linguistics, Criminology, and Media Studies and demonstrates how Linguistics can contribute to the study of crime in the media. By combining the tools offered by Corpus Linguistics and Critical Stylistics (a text-based framework for Critical Discourse Analysis), evidence is provided for predominant perceptions of crime and their underlying ideologies in both British and German society. This study names and illustrates the most significant linguistic devices used to construct offenders, victims, and crimes in two newspaper corpora compiled from the German and British press. These devices are then linked to criminological frameworks.

[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 20] 2015. xvii, 181 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/lal.20

Table of Contents

Preface | pp. xi–xii

Acknowledgements | pp. xiii–xiv

List of figures | pp. xv–xvi

List of tables | pp. xvii–xviii

Chapter 1. Introduction | pp. 1–8

Chapter 2. Crime theories and the media | pp. 9–26

Chapter 3. Critical language studies and Critical Stylistics | pp. 27–54

Chapter 4. Corpus Linguistics | pp. 55–70

Chapter 5. Conducting the analysis | pp. 71–90

Chapter 6. Linguistic construction in the British press | pp. 91–116

Chapter 7. Linguistic construction in the German press | pp. 117–152

Chapter 8. Final considerations | pp. 153–158

References | pp. 159–176

Appendix | pp. 177–178

Index | pp. 179–182

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Erratum

Due to a mishap in the first printing of Crime and Corpus, Figure 6.1 on Page 92 contained a number of black circles, obscuring the text. Here is the page with the figure as it should be.

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