Keywords in the Press: The New Labour Years

Building on Raymond Williams'' iconic "Keywords" released in 1975, Jeffries and Walker show how some pivotal words significantly increased in use and evolved in meaning during the years of the ''New Labour'' project. Focussing on print news media, this book establishes a set of socio-political keywords for the ''Blair Years'', and demonstrates how their evolving meanings are indicative of the ideological landscape in Britain at that time, and the extent to which the cultural hegemony of the New Labour project influenced the language of the commentariat.Combining corpus linguistic approaches with critical stylistics the authors conduct an analysis of two newspaper corpora using computational tools. Looking closely at textually-constructed meanings within the data, their investigation of the keywords has a qualitative focus, and sets out a clear methodology for combining corpus approaches with systematic co-textual analysis.>

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lesley Jeffries, Brian Walker, Lesley Brian, Lesley (University of Huddersfield Jeffries, Brian (University of Huddersfield Walker, Dr Lesley Jeffries, Dr Brian Walker, Dr Lesley Walker Jeffries
• Con la collaborazione di: Michaela Mahlberg (Editore)
• Editore: Bloomsbury Academic
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 31.05.2019
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata
• EAN: 9781350112599
• ISBN: 978-1-350-11259-9
• Numero di pagine: 224
• Serie: Corpus and Discourse; Corpus and Discourse
• Categorie: Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Historical & comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Historical and comparative linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc