Lexical Multidimensional Analysis - Identifying Discourses and Ideologies

This Element introduces Lexical Multidimensional Analysis (LMDA) for the identification and analysis of discourses and ideologies, offering insights into how lexis marks discourse formations and ideological alignments. Two case studies on climate change and migrant education demonstrate the application of LMDA.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Synthesizing existing LMDA scholarship; 3. How to conduct a lexical multidimensional analysis; 4. Case study 1: the discourses around climate change on a conservative social media platform; 5. Case study 2: exploring the distribution of selected migrant education ideological discourses over time and register; 6. Conclusion; References.

Product details

• Authors: Shannon Fitzsimmons-Doolan, Tony Berber (Pontifical Catholic Univers Sardinha, Sardinha Tony Berber
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2025
• EAN: 9781009335690
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0933569-0
• No. of pages: 92
• Series: Elements in Corpus Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Computational Linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Computational and corpus linguistics