TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Schröter, Melani
A1  - Storjohann, Petra
T1  - Patterns of discourse semantics. A corpus-assisted study of financial crisis in British newspaper discourse in 2009
JF  - Pragmatics and Society
N2  - Corpus-assisted analyses of public discourse often focus on the level of the lexicon. This article argues in favour of corpus-assisted analyses of discourse, but also in favour of conceptualising salient lexical items in public discourse in a more determined way. It draws partly on non-Anglophone academic traditions in order to promote a conceptualisation of discourse keywords, thereby highlighting how their meaning is determined by their use in discourse contexts. It also argues in favour of emphasising the cognitive and epistemic dimensions of discourse-determined semantic structures. These points will be exemplified by means of a corpus-assisted, as well as a frame-based analysis of the discourse keyword financial crisis in British newspaper articles from 2009. Collocations of financial crisis are assigned to a generic matrix frame for ‘event’ which contains slots that specify possible statements about events. By looking at which slots are more, respectively less filled with collocates of financial crisis, we will trace semantic presence as well as absence, and thereby highlight the pragmatic dimensions of lexical semantics in public discourse. The article also advocates the suitability of discourse keyword analyses for systematic contrastive analyses of public/political discourse and for lexicographical projects that could serve to extend the insights drawn from corpus-guided approaches to discourse analysis.
KW  - Diskursanalyse
KW  - Diskurssemantik
KW  - Korpus <Linguistik>
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Zeitung
KW  - discourse keywords (DKW)
KW  - discourse semantics
KW  - semantic presence/absence
KW  - frame-based contrastive analysis
KW  - corpus linguistics
KW  - public/ political discourse
Y1  - 2015
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-36153
SN  - 1878-9714
SS  - 1878-9714
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.6.1.03sch
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.6.1.03sch
N1  - Dieser Beitrag ist aus urheberrechtlichen Gründen nicht frei zugänglich.
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 43
EP  - 66
PB  - John Benjamins
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -