Key Function Words in a Corpus of UK Election Manifestos

Key Function Words in a Corpus of UK Election Manifestos

This article explores a corpus of all the UK election manifestos produced by the three main political parties in the period 1900–2010. It offers an alternative perspective on function words in corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis, placing them at the centre rather than the periphery. Using a...

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Main Author: Michael Pearce
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Bern Open Publishing 2014-04-01
Series:Linguistik Online
Online Access:https://bop.unibe.ch/linguistik-online/article/view/1447
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