Child Welfare in Victorian Newspapers: Corpus-Based Discourse Analysis

Representing discourse coherence: A corpus-based analysis

We present a set of discourse structure relations that are easy to code, and develop criteria for an appropriate data structure for representing these relations. Discourse structure here refers to informational relations that hold between sentences in a discourse (cf. Hobbs, 1985). We evaluated whether trees are a descriptively adequate data structure for representing coherence. Trees are widel...

Older Adults as Discursively Constructed in Taiwanese Newspapers: A Critical Discourse Analysis

This paper uses critical discourse analysis to examine discursive representations of older people in Taiwanese newspapers. A total of 926 references to older people were sampled from 62 articles published in four Taiwanese newspapers from January to August 2013. The findings suggest that, older people were frequently allocated roles suggestive of dependency. Those portrayed in line with the pos...

Exploring Newspapers: a Case Study in Corpus Analysis

This paper details the analysis of text data taken from a leading Scottish newspaper. In this work, the purpose is twofold. Firstly, we report on the adopted approach and the application of simple corpus analysis tools and techniques. Secondly, we report some of the findings from our analysis of this particular newspaper corpus.

The Victorian country child

A Self-Expanding Corpus Based on Newspapers on the Web

A Unix-based system is presented which automatic collects newspaper articles from the web, converts the texts, and includes these texts in a newspaper corpus. This corpus can be searched from a web-browser. The corpus is currently 70 millions words and increases by 4 millions words each month.