Korpusowa analiza dyskursu związanego z tematyką imigracji w brytyjskiej prasie opiniotwórczej

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to show the applicability of corpus– driven methodology to media discourse analysis. Theoretically, the study assumes that the semantic meaning of a lexical item is emergent and distributed, i.e. it resides in the word under investigation as well as the collocations with which it co–occurs. Methodologically, the analysis is primarily quantitative and relies on automatic data extraction and statistical calculations. The d ata used f or t he s tudy were gleaned from a corpus of the British press, which contains articles coming from three broadsheet newspapers representing both a conservative and a left–wing political stance. The paper demonstrates how a corpus–driven methodology can be successfully employed in media studies, in particular in press discourse analysis.