Analysing Representation

Frazer Heritage is a lecturer in Linguistics at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. His research focuses on corpus approaches to the representation of gender and sexuality across different forms of media, particularly within videogames and online communities. He is the author of the 2021 monograph Language, Gender and Videogames: Using Corpora to Analyse the Representation of Gender in Fantasy Videogames and the 2023 monograph Incels and Ideologies: Exploring How Incels Use Language to Construct Gender and Race.Charlotte Taylor is Professor of Discourse and Persuasion at University of Sussex, UK. She has extensive experience in investigating representation using corpus and discourse methods, and her publications include Corpus Approaches to Discourse: A Critical Review (with Anna Marchi) and Patterns and Meanings in Discourse (with Alan Partington and Alison Duguid). Her areas of interest include migration discourses, rhetorics of nostalgia and metaphor as a persuasive tool.

"Written in an accessible and helpful style, this is a great textbook for anyone who wants to carry out analyses of representations and discourse on large collections of text. Concepts and techniques are clearly introduced and illustrated with engaging examples."-- Paul Baker, Lancaster University“A great new introduction to the linguistic analysis of representation, with clear explanations of concepts and methods in both corpus and discourse analysis. Expertly edited and featuring multiple contributors, the book equips readers with the skills and knowledge they need to undertake their own systematic representation research. Welcome features include concise definitions of key skills and concepts, concrete case studies, independent task suggestions, and, in particular, valuable methodological reflection. Highly recommended for students and teachers alike, as it assumes little background knowledge and offers clear and consistent chapter structures throughout.”-- Monika Bednarek, The University of Sydney

• 1. IntroductionCharlotte Taylor and Frazer Heritage2. Concordance lines: what are they and how can they be used to explore representation?Matthew Gillings and Gerlinde Mautner3. Collocates: what are they and how can they be used to explore representation?Charlotte-Rose Kennedy, Gavin Brookes, and Anna Cherniaeva4. Frequency and keyness: what are they and how can they be used to explore representation?Pascual Perez-Paredes5. Choosing and building corpora to investigate representationRobbie Love and Lucia Busso6. Annotation and mark up for representation analysis Barbara De Cock, Philippe Hambye and Andrea Pizarro Pedraza7. Investigating social actors with corporaLaura Coffey-Glover8. Investigating social actions (transitivity) with corporaSally Hunt9. Investigating metaphor and representation with corporaMario Bisiada10. Investigating indexicality and representation with corporaMichael Handford and Zaina Al-Shahrani11. Investigating discourse keywords with corporaMelani Schröter12. Comparing representations across corpora and discoursesRachelle Vessey13. Investigating representation in digital discoursesLuke C. Collins and Ekaterina Ignatova14. Evaluating corpus and discourse workAnna Marchi Online ResourcesAppendix 1: How to write up your representation researchFrazer Heritage and Charlotte TaylorAppendix 2: FAQs in investigating representation using corpus and discourse methodsCharlotte Taylor and Frazer Heritage