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Keywords in the Press: The New Labour Years
Contributor(s): Jeffries, Lesley (Author), Mahlberg, Michaela (Editor), Walker, Brian (Author)
ISBN: 1350112593     ISBN-13: 9781350112599
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
OUR PRICE:   $46.48  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Alphabets & Writing Systems
- Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics
Dewey: 428.107
Series: Corpus and Discourse
Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.70 lbs) 224 pages
 
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Jeffries, Lesley: - Professor Lesley Jeffries is Chair of English Language and Director of the Stylistics Research Centre at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is also Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) from 2007-10.Mahlberg, Michaela: - Michaela Mahlberg is Associate Professor in English Language and Applied Linguistics at the The University of Nottingham, UK.Teubert, Wolfgang: - Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham.