Crime and Corpus

Name: Crime and Corpus | The linguistic representation of crime in the press
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The linguistic representation of crime in the press

Ulrike Tabbert(Autor*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 15. April 2015

XVII, 181 Seiten

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Crime and Corpus
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Dedication page
Epigraph page
Table of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of tables
Introduction
1.1 Crime as a social phenomenon
1.2 Language and crime theories
1.3 The structure of this book
Crime theories and the media
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Crime theories
2.2.1 Offender theories
2.2.1.1 Offenders and labelling theory
2.2.2 Victims and victimology
2.3 Recent tendencies and restorative justice
2.4 Risk and fear of crime
2.5 The fascination of crime
2.6 Moral panics
2.7 Criteria of newsworthiness
Critical language studies and critical stylistics
3.1 Concepts and definitions
3.1.1 Text
3.1.2 Ideology
3.1.3 Discourse
3.1.4 Power
3.2 Critical language studies
3.2.1 Critical linguistics
3.2.2 Critical discourse analysis and its major approaches
3.2.2.1 The marxist approach
3.2.2.2 The socio-cognitive approach
3.2.2.3 The discourse-historical approach
3.2.2.4 The socio-semantic approach
3.2.3 The cultural, the multimodal, and the cognitive approach to CDA
3.2.4 Critical views on CDA
3.3 Critical Stylistics
3.3.1 The methods of critical stylistics
3.3.1.1 Naming and describing
3.3.1.2 Representing actions/events/states - Transitivity analysis and verb voice
3.3.1.3 Equating and contrasting
3.3.1.4 Implying and assuming
3.3.1.5 Hypothesising - Modality
3.3.1.6 Presenting other's speech, thoughts, and writing
Corpus linguistics
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Different approaches to corpus linguistics
4.3 Different types of corpora
4.4 Reference corpora
4.5 The software package WordSmith tools
4.5.1 Wordlist/frequency list
4.5.2 Dispersion plots
4.5.3 Concordances, collocates, colligates, connotations, and semantic prosody
4.5.4 Keywords
4.6 Advantages and dangers of corpus linguistics
Conducting the analysis
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Combining Corpus Linguistics and Critical Stylistics
5.3 Data collection
5.3.1 Newspapers
5.3.2 Selection criteria
5.3.3 Constructing comparable corpora
5.4 Differences in the languages
5.4.1 Type/token ratio (TTR)
5.5 Reference corpora
5.6 Analysing the data
5.6.1 Wordlist
5.6.2 Collocation and concordances
5.6.3 Constructing a specialised keyword list
5.6.4 Extracting the most significant sentences
5.7 Critical Stylistics
5.8 Determining statistical significance by using log-likelihood ratio
5.8.1 Log-likelihood ratio
5.8.1 Calculating a confidence interval
Linguistic construction in the British press
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Offenders
6.2.1 Naming and equating
6.2.2 Contrasting
6.2.3 Processes and states
6.2.4 Opinions
6.2.5 Summary
6.3 Victims
6.3.1 Naming and equating
6.3.2 Processes and states
6.3.3 Opinions
6.3.4 Differences between victims and offenders
6.4 Summary
Linguistic construction in the German press
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Offenders
7.2.1 Naming and equating
7.2.2 Processes and states
7.2.3 Opinions
7.2.4 Assuming and implying
7.2.5 Contrasting
7.2.6 Comparing the ENC and the GNC
7.2.7 Summary
7.3 Victims
7.3.1 Naming and equating
7.3.2 Processes and states
7.3.3 Opinions
7.3.4 Time and space
7.3.5 Assuming and implying
7.3.6 Comparing victims and offenders
7.3.7 Comparing the GNC and ENC
7.3.8 Summary
7.4 Crimes
7.4.1 Naming
7.4.2 Processes and states
7.4.3 Opinions
7.4.4 Time and space
7.4.5 Summary
Final considerations
8.1 Linguistic constructions
8.2 Innovations
8.3 Critical thoughts and outlook
Appendix
Table A1
Table A2
Index

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